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on several later maps, such as those of Evans, 1771, and D'Anville, 
1790, but it was probably copied into them from Mitchell. Without 
giving any authority Gatschet quotes a statement to the effect 
"that the Yemasi band of Creeks refused to fight in the British- 
American war of 1813." 1 
There is reason to think that this band subsequently moved down 
among the Lower Creeks and thence into Florida. Into his report of 
1822 Morse copies a list of "Seminole" bands from the manuscript 
journal of a certain Captain Young, and among these we find the 
"Emusas," consisting of only 20 men and located 8 miles above 
the Florida boundary. 2 Their name is probably preserved in that 
of Omusee Creek, in Henry and Houston Counties, Alabama. What 
is evidently the same band appears again in a list of Seminole towns 
made in 1823, where it has the more correct form "Yumersee." 
They had then moved into Florida and were located at the "head 
of the Sumulga Hatchee River, 20 miles north of St. Mark's." The 
chief man was "Alac Hajo," whose name is Creek, properly Ahalak 
hadjo, "Potato hadjo." 3 It may be surmised that these people 
were subsequently absorbed into the Mikasuki band of Seminole. 
Connected intimately with the Yamasee were a small tribe found 
on the site of what is now Savannah by Governor Oglethorpe in 
1733, when he founded the colony of Georgia. They are called 
Yamacraw by the historians of the period, and their town was on a 
bluff, which still bears their name, in what is now the western suburb 
of the city. This name is a puzzle, since no r occurs in the Muskho- 
gean tongues. It suggests Yamiscaron, the form in which the 
tribal name of the Yamasee first appears in history through Fran- 
cisco of Chicora, but as I have shown elsewhere there is every reason 
to believe that the ending -ron is Siouan. 4 Its first definite appearance 
is in the later (1680) name of the Florida mission Nombre de Dios 
de Amacarisse, also given as Macarisqui or Macarizqui. We may 
safely assume that the leaders of the later Georgia Yamacraw came 
from this place, but the name itself remains as much of a mystery 
as before. They seem to be mentioned in the Public Records of 
South Carolina a few years before the Yamasee war as the "Amecario," 
or "Amercaraio," "above Westoe [i. e., Savannah] River." 5 From 
the conference which Oglethorpe held with these people and the 
Creeks and the speeches delivered at that conference we obtain 
some further information regarding the history of the town. It 
was settled in 1730 by a body of Indians from among the Lower 
Creeks, numbering 17 or 18 families and 30 or 40 men, under the 
i Gatschet, Creek Mig. Leg., I, p. 65. * See p. 37 et seq. 
2 Morse, Rept. on Indian Affairs, p. 3G4; see p. 409. '■> Pub. Rec. S. C, n, pp. 8-9, MS. 
3 Amer. State Papers, Ind. Affairs, n, p. 439; see p. 411. 
