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main entries between 170 1 and 1717, after that date there is a 
considerable falling off. 1 When Fort Toulouse was founded, about 
171"). the Tawasa Indians, formerly neighbors of the Apalachee, set- 
tled near it among the Alabama. It is probable that some Apala- 
chee accompanied them. At any rate a few known to be of Apala- 
chee descent are still living among the Alabama near Weleetka, 
Oklahoma. 
At a considerably later date we find two Apalachee towns in the 
territory which the tribe formerly occupied. Gov. Dionisio de la 
Vega, to whom we are indebted for information regarding these, repre- 
sents them as Apalachee which had been left after the destruction 
of the province. Writing August 27, 1728, he says: 
The em ire province of A.palache became reduced to two towns. The one called 
Hamaste, distant two leagues from the fort [of San Marcos], had about sixty men, 
forty women, and about the same number of children who were being taught the 
doctrine. The other one. named San Juan de Guacara, which was its old name, had 
about ten men, six women, and four children, all Christians. 2 
San Juan de Guacara was, however, originally a Timucua town, and 
the above settlement may have been Timucua miscalled "Apalache" 
by the governor, or they may have been Apalachee settled on the 
site of a former Timucua town. Hamaste was very likely the town 
established by Juan Marcos. De la Vega adds that these towns had 
revolted March 20, 1 727, but he had learned that some of the Indians 
had "returned to their obedience," while those still hostile had ap- 
parently withdrawn from the neighborhood of the fort. 2 Most of 
those Apalachee who remained in Florida evidently gravitated at 
hist to the vicinity of Pensacola, where they could also be near 
the Mobile band. We will now revert to these last. 
As already stated, Bienville placed those Apalachee who sought 
his protection near the Mobile. Indians, but their settlement was 
broken up by the Alabama and they took refuge near the new Fort 
Louis. Afterward Bienville assigned them lands on the River St. 
Martin, a league from the fort. "This," says Hamilton, "would be 
at our Three Mile Creek, probably extending to Chickasabogue, the 
St. Louis." He adds that "The cellar of the priest's house still 
exists behind a sawmill near Magazine Point." 3 Some time before 
1733 they made another change, perhaps because so many had gone 
to Pensacola. Says Hamilton: 
We know that at some time they moved over across the bay from the city, where 
the eastern mouth of the Tensaw River still preserves their name. They seem to 
have lived in part on an island there, for in Spanish times it is mentioned as only 
recently abandoned. . . . Their main seat was at and above what we now know as 
Blakely. Bayou Solime* probably commemorates Salome, so often named in the 
baptismal 
| Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, pp. 109 111. 3 Hamilton, op. cit., p. 109. 
=Brooks, S£SS * [bid., p. 111. 
