bwaktok] EARL! HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIAN'S 177 
About Beventy or eighty miles above the confluence of the Oakmulge and Ocone, 
the trading path, from Augusta to the Creek Nation, crosses these fine rivers, which 
axe there fortj miles apart. On the east bank of the Oakmulge this trading road runs 
nearly two miles through ancient Indian fields, which are called the Oakmulge fields; 
they are the rich low lands of the river. On the heights of these low lands are yet 
visible monuments, or traces, of an ancient town, such as artificial mounds or terraces, 
squares and banks, encircling considerable areas. Their old fields and planting land 
extended up and down the river, fifteen or twenty miles from this site. 1 
As Bart ram states that the Creeks had stopped here after their im- 
migra t ion from the west, the Hitchiti may not have been in occupancy 
always. On the other hand, Bartram may have inferred a Creek 
occupancy from the tradition that the confederacy had there been 
founded, but this may really have had reference to a compact of 
some kind between the Hitchiti and the invading Creeks, irrespective 
of the land actually held by each tribe. 
After the Yamasee war the Hitchiti moved across to Chattahoochee 
River with most of the other Lower Creeks, first to a point low down on 
that river, later higher up ( between the Chiaha and Apalachicola. 2 
In 1761 they were assigned to the traders, George Mackay and James 
Hewitt, along with the Point towns. 3 Their name occurs in the 
lists of both Swan and Bartram. 4 In 1797 the trader there was 
William Grey. 5 Hawkins (1799) gives the following description of 
the Hitchiti town and its branch villages: 
llit-che-tee is on the left bank of Chat-to-ho-che, four miles below Che-au-hau; 
they have a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, and back of this it rises 
intohigh, poorland, which spreads off flat. In approaching the town on this side there 
is no rise, but a great descent to the town flat; on the right bank of the river the land 
is level and extends onl for two miles; is of thin quality: the growth is post oak, hick- 
ory, and pine, all small: then pine barren and ponds. 
The appearance about this town indicates much poverty and indolence; they have 
no fences; they have spread out into villages, and have the character of being honest 
and industrious; they are attentive to the rights of their white neighbors, and no 
charge of horse stealing from the frontiers has been substantiated against them. The 
villages are: 
1st. Hit-che-too-che (Little Hit-che-tee), a small village of industrious people, set- 
tled on both sides of Flint River, below Kit-cho-foo-ne ; they have good fences, cattle, 
horses, and hogs, in a fine range, and are attentive to them. 
2d. Tut-tal-lo-see (fowl), on a creek of that name, twenty miles west from Hit-che- 
too-che. This is a line creek on a bed of limestone; it is a branch of Kitch-o-foo-ne; 
the land bordering on the creek, and for eight or nine miles 6 in the direction towards 
Hit-che-too-che. is level, rich, and fine for cultivation, with post and black oak, 
hickory, dogwood and pine. The villagers have good worm fences, appear indus- 
trious, and have large stocks of cattle, some hogs and horses; they appear decent and 
> Bartram, Travels, pp. 52-53. * Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262; Bartram, 
« See p. 174. Travels, p. 462. 
« Oa. Col. Docs., vni, p. 522. 5 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 171. 
• The Lib. of Cong. MS. has "six or eight." 
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