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made peace between the "Chacatos, A.palachocolos, and Amacanos" 
and i lie A.palachee. 1 [e adds: 
It is an extraordinary thing, because the aforesaid Chacatos aever lm<l peace with 
anybody. 1 
In 1671 two missions were established among the Chatot Indians 
San Carlos de los Chacatos and San Nicolas de Tolentino. The same 
year the friars were threatened by three Chiskas (Yuchi) and appealed. 
to the Apalaehee commandant, Capt. Juan Hernandez de Florencia, 
who proceeded to the Chatot country with 25 soldiers. In the cer- 
tilieation which these friars, Fray Miguel de Valverde and Fray 
Rodrigo de la Barreda, give regarding his conduct they state that 
they had converted the Chatot chiefs and more than 300 of the com- 
mon people. 2 In 1675, as appears from a letter from the Spanish 
governor of Florida to the crown, the Chatot rebelled, incited, as he 
claims, by the Chiska, wounded Fray Rodrigo de la Barreda, and 
drove him to Santa Cruz, the new Apalaehee mission station on 
Apalachicola River. 2 There he was protected by Florencia, who put 
an end to the disturbances, 2 but soon afterwards the Chatot aban- 
doned their country and withdrew among the Apalaehee, where they 
settled in "the land of San Luis." 3 This withdrawal 'was probably 
due to hostilities on the part of the Chiska. At the same time the 
two missions appear to have been combined into one called San 
Carlos de los Chacatos given in the mission list of 1680 as a "new 
conversion." 4 In 1695 the governor of Florida writes that shortly 
before the Lower Creeks, whom he calls " Apalachecole, " had entered 
San Carlos de los Chacatos "and carried off forty two Christians, 
despoiling and plundering the church." 5 This attack was only a 
foretaste of what was to come, but for specific information regarding 
the subsequent troubles of these people we are obliged to turn to 
Prench and English sources. 
Unfortunately the similarity between the words Chatot and Chacta, 
or Choctaw, has resulted in some confusion regarding the history 
of this tribe. Thus the following account in La Harpe, which is 
made to apply to the Choctaw, probably refers in reality to another 
English and Creek attack upon the Chatot: 
Jan. 7, 1706. M. Lambert brought a Chacta chief; he brought the news that this 
nation had been attacked by four thousand savages, at the head of whom were many 
English, who had carried away more than three hundred women and children. 6 
The following items should also' be added: 
Aug. 25 news was received that two hundred savages allied with the English had 
gone to Pensacola, and that they had burned the houses which were outside of the 
i Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 196; also Lowery, MSS. * See p. 323. 
» Lowery, MSS. 6 Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 224. 
3 Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 208. 6 La Harpe, Jour. Hist., pp. 94-95. 
