swanton] EARLY HISTOR"! OF THE CREEK IN'DIAXS 183 
in the Provincia de A.palache, and ii is called a "new conversion." 1 
The missionary efforl was probably instrumental in bringing this 
tribe nearer the Apalachee, and such an inference is confirmed by a 
letter of 1717 in which reference is made to "a Christian Indian 
named Augustin, of the nation Tama of Apalache." 2 On the De 
Crenay map of 1733 the name appears as Tamatle, and the tribe 
is located on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River below all 
of the other ('reek towns on that stream. 3 This position is con- 
firmed from Spanish sources, particularly from one document in 
which the order of Lower Creek towns from south to north is given 
as "Tamaxle, Chalaquilicha, Yufala, Sabacola, Ocone, Apalachicalo, 
Ocomulque, Osuche, Chiaja, Casista, Caveta." 4 A Spanish enumera- 
tion of Creek towns made in 1738 gives two towns of this name, 
"Tamaxle el Viejo," the southernmost of all Lower Creek towns, 
and "Tamaxle nuevo, " apparently the northernmost. 5 The enumera- 
tioD of 1750 places them between the Hitchiti and the Oconee. 4 
Hawkins enumerates them as one of those tribes out of which the 
Seminole Nation had been formed. 6 Since all of the others men- 
tioned by him were still represented among the Lower Creeks it is 
probable that this tribe had emigrated in its entirety. It is wanting in 
the lists of Bartram and Swan, and from the census of 1832, but appears 
in that contained in Morse's Report to the Secretary of War (1822), 
and also in the diary of Manuel Garcia (1800), where it is given 
as a Lower Creek town. It was then on the Apalachicola River, 
7 miles above the Ocheese. 7 It so appears on the Melish map of 
1818-19, where it is called " Tomathlee-Seminole " (pi. 8). These are 
the last references to it, and it was probably swallowed up in the 
Mikasuki band of Seminole. 
It should be observed that the name of this tribe, or a name very 
similar, appears twice far to the north in the Cherokee country. 
One town bearing it was " on Valley River, a few miles above Murphy, 
about the present Tomatola, in Cherokee County, North Carolina." 
The other was "on Little Tennessee River, about Tomotley ford, a 
few miles above Tellieo River, in Monroe. County, Tennessee." 
Mooney, from whom these quotations are made, adds that the name 
does not appear to be Cherokee. 8 This fact should be considered in 
connection with a similar north and south division of the Tuskegee, 
Koasati, and Yuchi. Gatschet states definitely that one of these 
Cherokee towns was settled by Creek Tamali Indians, 9 but this 
appears to have been merely a guess on his part . 
i See pp. 110, 323. « Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 26. 
2 Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 228. ' Morse, Rept. to Sec. of War, 1822, p. 364. 
3 Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. 8 19th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Etbn., p. 534. 
< Copy of Ms. in Aver Coll., Newberry Lib. » Ala. Hist. Soc, Misc. Colls., i, p. 410. 
* Ibid. See p. 143. 
