bwantok] KAKI.Y IIIS'lnKY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 10.) 
Indians who were to be sent againsl Carolina. 1 In 17M) a captive 
taken by the English testified thai there were 60 Yamasee near St. 
Augustine. 2 In 1722 it is said that they wen- expelled from St. 
Augustine because they would not work in the way the Spaniards 
wished. 
Prom Tobias Fitch's journal we learn that the head chief of the 
Lower Creeks, whom he calls "Old Brinins," "Old Brunins," or 
"Old Brmins," sent an expedition against the Yamasee in Florida 
in 1725. While Fitch was still with him two runners came back 
and gave the following account of this expedition: 
The Pilot thai we had, < lamed us to a Fort in a Town Where we thought the Yamases 
were, and we fired at the Said Fort, Which alarmed ten Men that was Placed To 
Discover us which we past when they were asleep. Our fireing awaked them and 
they Ran round us and gave Notice to the Yamasees Who was Removed from this 
town Higher the Sea and had there Build a new fort which we found and Attacked 
but with litle Success through it happen'd the Huspaw Kings Family was not all got 
in the fort and we took three of them and fired Several Shott at the Huspaw king and 
are in hopes have killed him. There Came out a party of the Yamases who fought 
us and we took the Capt. We waited three days about there Fort, Expecting to get 
ane opportunity to take Some More but to no purpose. We then Came away and the 
Yamases pursued us. We Eo light them and gained the Batle. We drove the Yamases 
unto a pond and was Just Runing in after them where we Should a had a great advan- 
tage of them but we discover'd about fourty Spanyards armed on horse Back Who 
made Toward us wt a White Cloth before them and as they advanced toward us They 
made Signes that we Should fforbear fireing. Some of our head men gave Out orders 
not to fire, But Steyamasiechie or Gogel Eys Told them it was spoilt and to fire away. 
According we did, and the Spanyards fled. After that the Yamases pursued us [and] 
gave us ane other Batle in which they did us the most Damnadge. We have killed 
Eight of the Yamases, on of which is the huspaw kings head Warriour and have 
Brought off all their Scalps. We have likewise Taken nine of them a Live, Together 
with Several Guns, Some Cloth, and Some plunder Out of there Churches, Which 
you will See When the Warriours Come in. 3 
Fitch adds that the Creeks lost on their side five men killed and 
six wounded.' In the "Introduction to the Report on General Ogle- 
thorpe's Expedition to St. Augustine," we read that in 1727 — 
A Party of Yamasee Indians, headed by Spaniards from St. Augustine, having 
murdered our Out-Scouts, made an incursion into our Settlements, within Ten Miles 
of Ponpon, where they cut off one Mr. Micheau, with another White-man on the same 
plantation, and carried off a Third Prisoner, with all the Slaves, Horses, &c. But 
bein^ briskly pursued by the Neighbours, who had Notice of it, they were overtaken, 
routed, and obliged to quit their Booty. 
The Government [the narrative goes on to say], judged it Necessary to chastise (at 
least) those Indians, commissioned Col. Palmer for that Purpose instantly; who with 
about One Hundred Whites, and the like Number of our Indians, landed at St. Juan's, 
and having left a sufficient Number to take care of the Craft, marched undiscovered to 
the Yamasee Town, within a Mile of St. Augustine. He attack'd it at once, killed 
several of those Indians, took several Prisoners, and drove the Rest into the very Gates 
i Pub. Rec. S. C, MS., vn, p. 186. 
« [bid., vni. p. 7. 
• Merqpess, Travels in the American Colonies, pp. 204-205. 
• Ibid , p. 205. 
