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lower Apalachicola, but only one is marked "Towasa." Neverthe- 
less it appears likely that the 10 towns are the "nations" to which 
Lamhatty refers, especially as what he says regarding their fate 
may be made to fit in very well with other information concerning 
them. The names of these 10 towns are given as: Towasa, Potihka, 
Sow611a, Choct6uh, Ogolatighoos, Tomo6ka, Ephippick, Auledly, 
Socs6sky, and Sunepah. Towasa is of course the well-known Tawasa 
tribe. The five following may probably be identified with the 
Pawokti, Sawokli, Chatot, VucJii, and a band of Timucua. This last 
and the Potihka are the only ones the identification of which is uncer- 
tain. With the remaining four nothing ran be done. Of the first 
six, tlie Tawasa and Chatot arc known to have taken refuge with the 
French and may have been the two that Lamhatty says fled on the 
occasion of the second attack. 1 The band of Yuchi evidently remained 
in this country much longer and may have been the "nation" left 
out of consideration. The three others identified always remained 
scpai ate, and we are reduced to the conclusion that the four unidenti- 
fied towns represented the people afterwards called Apalachicola. 
They were perhaps those carried off on the last raid. 
Be that as it may, the next we hear of the Apalachicola they were 
settled upon Savannah River at a place known for a long time as 
Palachocolas or Parachocolas Fort, on the east or southeast side, 
almost opposite Mount Pleasant, and about 50 miles from the river's 
mouth. In 1716, after the Yamasee war, the Apalachicola, and part 
of the Yuchi and Shawnee, abandoned their settlements on the 
Savannah and moved over to the Chattahoochee. The Apalachicola 
chief at that time was named Cherokee Leechee. 2 The date is fixed 
by a manuscript map preserved in South Carolina, They settled first 
at the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, at a place 
known long afterwards as Apalachicola Fort. Later they abandoned 
this site and went higher up; in fact, they probably moved several 
times. 
Some early Spanish documents treat Apalachicola and Cherokee 
Leechee as distinct towns. Thus in the directions given to a Spanish 
emissary about to set oul for the Lower Creek towns he is informed 
that he would encounter these towns in the following order: "Ta- 
maxle, Chalaquilicha, Yufala, Sabacola, Ocone, Apalachicalo, Oc- 
mulque, Osuche, Chiaja, Casista, Caveta. " This was evidently 
due to the removal of a large part of the Apalachicola Indians from 
the forks of Chattahoochee River to the position later occupied by 
the entire tribe, while some still remained with their chief in the 
district first settled. 
t Later information shows, however, that the Chatot must have fled after the first attack, for thi 
had gone to Mobile before July 28, L706 (see pp. 123-124). 
2 "Cherokee killer" in Creek. Brinton, Floridian Peninsula, p. 141. 
