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Northern Sawokli appeared in French and Spanish censuses

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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In the Spanish census of 1750 it occurs again in the distorted form "Couacale," ' and in the French census of 1760 it is spelled "Chaouakl6" and placed between Kasihta and Coweta.3 Finally, one of my best Indian informants—a man who was born in the country of the Lower Creeks in Alabama—remembered that there were two distinct towns called Sawokli and Tcawokli, both of which he believed to belong to the Hitchiti group.
This latter probably gave its name to a branch of Uphapee Creek called Chewockeleehatchee Creek, which in turn furnished the designation for a body of Tulsa who had nothing to do with the Sawokli tribe.3 If we may trust the census of 1832, a village inhabited by Kasihta bore the same name.4
The towns of Okawaigi (or Kawaigi) and Okiti-yagani are said to have branched off from the Sawokli. The former is probably one of the Sawokli towns which appear in the French census. The latter is evidently the ' ' Oeyakbe ' ' of the same list,2 and the ' ' Weupkees ' ' of the census of 1761,5 in which the name has been translated into Muskogee, Oiyakpi, "water (or river) fork." Manuel Garcia, a Spanish officer sent against the adventurer Bowles, mentions it in the grossly distorted form "Hogue 6hotehanne."5 Okawaigi and Okiti-yakani are both in Hitchiti, the first signifying ' ' Place to get water," and the second "Zigzag stream land." They are in the census list of 1832 along with still another Sawokli off branch called Hatchee tcaba [Hatci tcaba] 7 which is to be distinguished carefully from an Upper Creek town of the same name, a branch of Kealedji.8 After accompanying the other Creeks west the Sawokli soon gave up their independent busk ground and united with the Hitchiti. Their descendants are living near Okmulgee, the former capital of the Creek Nation in the west.
(Swanton)