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What became of the Coosa
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The French estimate of 1750 gives 30+ in the town and 240+ in the group.2 In 1760 the Coosa group of towns numbered about 430 men, and in 1761 about 270 hunters are reported in them [Note: David Taitt states in his diary of 1772 that some years before his time Okfuskee numbered 300 gunmen but the town had then spread out so much into branch villages that there were only about 30 gunmen in the old settlement. In the same way Great Tulsa which had once contained 100 gunmen had become reduced to "not above thirty " by thc settlement of two outvillages, one 8, the other 25 miles off. The Coosa towns at about that time must have contained upward of 400 gunmen.]. In 1792 the "Coosa of Chickasaw Camp" were credited with 80 men, and all the Coosa offshoots together with 440.4 According to the figures furnished by Hawkins the entire Coosa connection would number upward of 520, and by the census of 1832 the grand total was 3,792 Indians, about one-sixth of the entire Creek population. (Swanton)
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