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Bartram saw Yamasee enslaved with the Seminoles

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

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[Bartram] saw Yamasee slaves living among the Seminole;2 but from other data it is evident that free bands, in whole or in part Yamasee, still existed. One of these will be mentioned later. Several writers on the Seminole state that the Oklawaha band was said to be descended from this tribe,3 and it appears probable since that band occupied the region in which most maps of the period immediately preceding place the Yamasee.

According to the same writers their complexion was somewhat darker than that of the other Seminole. The noted leader Jumper is said by some to have been of Yamasee descent, but Cohen sets him down as a refugee from the Creeks.5 In the long war with the Americans which followed, whatever remained of the tribe became fused with one of the larger bodies, very likely with the Mikasuki, whose language is supposed to have been nearest to their own. We do not know whether those Yamasee who went to Pensacola and Mobile with the Apalachee remained with them or returned to east Florida, but the former supposition is the more likely.
(Swanton)