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In the census list of 1761 they were assigned to John Rae as trader.1 In January, 1778, Bartram passed this town, which he calls "Usseta," and he says that it joined Chiaha, but that the two spoke radically different languages.2 The traders located there in 1797 were Thomas Carr and John Anthony Sandoval, the latter a Spaniard.3

...Hawkins description from 1799

...Another description of Kasihta is given by Hodgson, an English missionary who passed through the Creek country in 1820. He says:
"It [Note: Kasihta; Hodgson spells the name Cosito.]2 appeared to consist of about 100 houses, many of them elevated on poles from two to six feet high, and built of unhewn logs, with roofs of bark, and little patches of Indian corn before the doors. The women were hard at work, digging the ground, pounding Indian corn, or carrying heavy loads of water from the river: the men were either setting out to the woods with their guns or lying idle before the doors; and the children were amusing themselves in little groups. The whole scene reminded me strongly of some of the African towns described by Mungo Park. In the centre of the town we passed a large building, with a conical roof, supported by a circular wall about three feet high; close to it was a quadrangular space, enclosed by four open buildings, with rows of benches rising above one another; the whole was appropriated, we were informed, to the Great Council of the town, who meet under shelter or in the open air, according to the weather. Near the spot was a high pole, like our may-poles, with a bird at the top, round which the Indians celebrate their Green-Corn Dance. The town or township of Cosito is said to be able to muster 700 warriors, while the number belonging to the whole nation is not estimated at more than 3,500."1

Seven separate Kasihta settlements are enumerated in the census of 1832, as follows:
"On little Euchee Creek, 211, besides 105 slaves; 
on Tolarnulkar Hatchee, 486, and 4 slaves;
on Opillikee Hatchee, Tallassee town, 171; 
on Chowwokolohatchec, 118; 
at Secharlitcha ["under black-jack trees"], 214; 
on Osenubba Hatchee, or Tuckabatchee Harjo's town, 269, and 8 slaves; 
near West Point, or Tuskehenehaw Chooley's town, 399; 
total, 1,868 Indians and 117 slaves.2

The principal chiefs and their households are omitted from the enumeration. Gatschet mentions another branch called "Tusilgis
tco'ko or clapboard house." [Note: Marginal note in Creek Mig. Leg., i, MS] After their removal they settled in the northern part of the Creek Nation in the west with the other Lower Creeks, where their descendants for the most part still are.
(Swanton)

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