swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 97 
he withdrew to hie country and afterwards gave obedience to the English settled in 
Santa Elena and San Jorge, other Indians following him; and nol satisfied with this 
lapse of faith, he returned the following year to the province of Timuqua or Timag >a 
to make war, plundered the Doctrina of Santa Catalina, carried off the furnishings 
of the church and convent of San Francisco, burned the town, inflicted grievous 
death on many Indians, and carried back other prisoners to Santa Elena, where he 
made slaves of them, which invasion was so unexpected that it could not be foreseen 
nor prevented . . . l 
Early South Carolina documents speak of 10 Yamasee towns 
there, 5 upper towns headed by Pocotaligo, and 5 lower towns 
headed by Altamahaw or Aratomahaw. 2 The new settlers were 
given a strip of land hack of Port Royal on the northeast side of 
the Savannah River, which, long after they had vacated it, was 
still known as "the Indian land." The following names of chiefs or 
"kings" are given in the South Carolina documents and these evi- 
dently refer to their towns: The Pocotalligo king, the Altamahaw 
king, the Yewhaw king, the Huspaw king, the Chasee king, the 
Pocolabo king, the Ilcombe king, and the Dawfuskee king, 3 though 
the identity of this last is a little uncertain. The ''Peterba king" 
mentioned among those killed in the Tuscarora war in 1712 was also 
probably a Yamasee, though he may have been an Apalachee. There 
were 87 Yamasee among Col. Barnwell's Indian allies in the Tusca- 
rora expedition. 4 
In 171") the Yamasee war broke out, the most disastrous of all 
those which the two Carolina settlements had to face. The 
documents of South Carolina show clearly that the immediate cause 
of this uprising was the misconduct of some English traders, but it 
is evident that the enslavement, of Indians, carried on by Carolina 
traders in an ever more open and unscrupulous manner, was bound 
to produce such an explosion sooner or later. The best contemporary 
narratives of this revolt are to be found in "An Account of Mission- 
aries Sent to South Carolina, the Places to Which They Were Ap- 
pointed, Their Labours and Success, etc.," and in "An Account of 
the Breaking Out of the Yamassee War, in South Carolina, extracted 
from the Boston News, of the 13th of June, 1715," both contained in 
Carroll's Historical Collections of South Carolina. 5 The following 
is from the first of these documents : 
In the year 1715, the Indians adjoining to this colony, all round from the borders of 
Fort St. Augistino to Cape Fear, had formed a conspiracy to extirpate the white people. 
This war broke out the week before Easter [actually on April 15]. The parish of St. 
Helen's had some apprehensions of a rising among the adjoining Indians, called the 
Yammosees. On Wednesday before Easter, Captain Nairn, agent among the Indians, 
1 Barcia, La Florida, p. 287. 
» Proc. Board dealing with Indian Trade, MS , pp. 16 and 47. 
• Ibid., pp. 55, 58, 81, 102; Council Records, MS., vi. p. 159; vii, p. 180; x, p. 177. 
« S. Car. Hist, and Gen. Mag., 9, pp. 30-31. 
Vol. II, pp. 538-576. 
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