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Ocmulgee Village, 7 miles [In-low Botalgihuyana]. There is a few families, the 
remains of the Ocmulgee people who formerly resided at the Ocmulgee fields on 
Ocmulgee River; lands poor, pine barren on both sides; the swamp equally poor and 
sandy; the growth dwarf scrub brush, evergreens, among which is the Cassine." 1 
The mouth of Kinchafoonee creek was 8 miles below. 
Manuel Garcia mentions their chief as one of several Lower Creek 
chiefs with whom he had a conference in the year 1800. He spells 
the name " Okomulgue." 2 Morse (1822) includes them in a list 
of towns copied from a manuscript by Capt. Young. They were 
then located east of, Flint River, near the Hotalgihuyana, and 
numbered 220. 3 They are wanting from the census rolls of 1832, 
but perhaps formed one of the two Osochi towns mentioned, each 
of which is given a very large population. On their removal west 
of the Mississippi they settled in the northeastern corner of the new 
Creek territory, near the Chiaha. They were among the first to 
give up their old square ground and to adopt white manners and 
customs. Probably in consequence of this progress they furnished 
three chiefs to the Creek Nation — Joe Perryman, Legus Perryman, 
and Pleasant Porter — and a number of leading men besides. 
THE OCONEE 
In addition to two groups of Muskhogean people bearing this name 4 
it should be noticed that it was popularly applied by the whites to a 
Cherokee town, property called Ukwu'nu (or Ukwu'nl), 5 but the 
similarity may be merely a coincidence. Of the two Creek groups 
mentioned one seems to be associated exclusively with the Florida 
tribes, while the second, when we first hear of it, was on the Georgia 
river which still bears its name. The first reference to either 
appears to be in a report of the Timucua missionary, Pareja, dated 
1602. He mentions the "Ocony, '' three days' journey from San 
Pedro, among a number of tribes among which there were Chris- 
tians or which desired missionaries. 6 In a letter dated April 8, 1608, 
Ibarra speaks of " the chief of Ocone which marches on the province 
of Tama." 8 This might apply to either Oconee division. The mis- 
sion lists of 1655 contain a station called Santiago de Ocone, de- 
scribed as an island and said to be 30 leagues from St. Augustine. 
As it was certainly not southward of the colonial capital it would 
seem to have been near the coast to the north, according to the dis- 
tance given, in the neighborhood of Jekyl Island. At the very same 
time there was another Oconee mission among the Apalachee Indians 
called San Francisco deApalache in the list of 1655; it is given in the 
»Oa. Hist. Soc.Colls.,ix,p. 173. « Sec p. 112. 
1 Copy MS. in Aver Coll., Newberry Lib. ' 19th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 541. 
' Morse, Rept. on Ind. Afl., p. 364. 'Lowery, MSS. 
