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orderly, and are desirous of preserving a friendly intercourse with their neighbors; 
they have this year, 1799, built a square. 1 
Manuel Garcia calls this latter village " Totolosehache." 2 According 
to an anonymous writer quoted by Gatsohet there were, about 1820, 
six "Fowl towns," Cahalli hatchi, old Tallahassi, Atap'halgi, Allik 
hadshi, Eetatulga, and Mikasuki. 3 Most of these will be referred to 
again when we come to speak of Seminole towns. 4 The census of 
1832 mentions a Hitchiti village called Hihaje. 
After their removal to the west the Hitchiti were placed in about the 
center of the Creek Nation, near what is now Hitchita station, and 
their descendants have remained there and about Okmulgee up to 
the present time. A portion migrated to Florida and after the 
removal maintained a square ground for a time in the northern 
part of the Seminole Nation, Oklahoma. Some persons in this 
neighborhood still preserve the language. 
THE OKMULGEE 
This tribe also belonged to the Hitchiti group. The name refers 
to the bubbling up of water in a spring, and in Creek it is called 
Oiki lako, and Oikewali, signifying much the same thing. The 
designation is said to have come originally from a large spring in 
Georgia. One of my informants thought that this was near Fort 
Mitchell, but probably it was the same spring from which the Ocmul- 
gee River got its name, and this would be the famous "Indian Spring" 
in Butts County, Georgia. As early maps consulted by me do not 
show a town of the name on Ocmulgee River, and as the site of 
the Ocmulgee old fields was occupied by Hitchiti, I believe the 
Okmulgee were a branch of the Hitchiti, which perhaps left the 
town on the Ocmulgee before the main body of the people and 
made an independent settlement on Chattahoochee River. There 
their nearest neighbors were the Chiaha and Osochi, and the three 
together constituted what were sometimes known as "the point 
towns" from a point of land made by the river at that place. 
Bartram does not give the tribe separate mention, perhaps because 
he reckoned them as part of the Chiaha or Osochi. The French 
enumeration of 1750 records them as " Oemoulke," 5 the French census 
of about 1760 as "Omolquet," 6 and the Georgia census of 1761 gives 
them as one of "the point towns." 7 Hawkins omits them from his 
sketch, but mentions them in his notes taken in 1797, where he says: 
1 Hawkins' Sketch, in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, pt. 1, pp. 64-65. Hitchiti were also on Chickasawhatchee 
Creek.— Hawkins, in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 174. 
2 Ayer. Coll., Newberry Lib. 
3 Misc. Coll., Ala. Hist. Soc, I, p. 413. 
* See pp. 406-412. 
s MSS., Ayer Coll. 
6 Miss. Prow Arch., I, p. 96. 
' Ga. Col. Docs., vni, p. 522. 
