bwanton] KARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 197 
not occur in the list of Creek towns in the census of 1761, but part of 
them may he included in the following: "Welonkees including red 
Ground, 70 hunters," the name of the principal Alabama town 
being" Red Ground " in Hawkins's time. 1 Another part of them are, 
however, represented by the "Little Oakchoys, assigned to Wm, 
Trewin." 3 The enumeration of 1750 seems to give Red Ground in the 
distorted form "Canachequi. " 3 In 1777 Bartram visited a town which 
he calls "Alabama" situated at the junction of the Coosa and 
Tallapoosa Rivers, but this seems really to have been Tuskegee. 4 
Hawkins enumerates four settlements which he believed to be the 
ancient Alabama, but in fact only the first of these appears to have 
consisted of true Alabama, the others being probably made up of 
later additions, which have already been considered (pp. 137-141). 
Following is his description of these four places: 
1st. E-cun-chate: from E-cun-na, earth, and chate, red. A small village on the 
left bank of Alabama, which has its fields on the right side, in the cane swamp; they 
arc a poor people, without stock, are idle and indolent, and seldon make bread enough, 
but have fine melons in great abundance in their season. The land back from the 
settlement is of thin quality, oak, hickory, pine and ponds. Back of this, hills, or 
waving. Here the soil is of good quality for cultivation; that of thin quality extends 
nearly a mile. 
2d. Too-wos-sau, is three miles below E-cnn-cha-te, on the same side of the river; 
a small village on a high bluff, the land is good about, and back of the village; they 
have some lots fenced with cane, and some with rails, for potatoes and ground nuts; 
the corn is cultivated on the right side of the river, on rich cane swamps; these people 
have a few hogs, but no other stock. 
3d. Pau-woc-te; a small village two miles below Too-was-sau, 5 on a high bluff, the 
same side of the river; the land is level and rich for five miles back; but none of it 
is cultivated around their houses; their fields are on the right bank of the river, on 
rich cane swamp; they have a few hogs and horses, but no cattle; they had, formerly, 
the largeel and best breed of hogs in the nation, but have lost them by carelessness 
or inattention. 6 
-1 tli. At-tau-gee; a small village four miles below Pau-woc-te, spread out for two 
miles on the right bank of the river; they have fields on both sides, but their chief 
dependence is on the left side; the land on the left side is rich; on the right side the 
pine forest extends down to At-tau-gee Creek ; below this creek the land is rich. 
These people have very little intercourse with white people; although they are 
hospitable, and offer freely any thing they have, to those who visit them. They 
have this singular custom, as soon as a white person has eaten of any dish and left it, 
the remains are thrown away, and every thing used by the guest immediately washed. 
They have some hogs, horses, and cattle, in a very fine range, perhaps the best on 
the river; the land to the east as far as Ko-e-ne-cuh, and except the plains (Hi-yuc- 
1 Oa. Col. Docs., vin, p. 524. 
1 Ibid., p. S24. 
> MS., AyerColl. 
1 Bartram, Travels, pp. 44.5, 461. 
1 Also given as 7 miles below the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa.— Hawkins in Coll. Oa. Hist. Soe., 
ix, p. 170. 
6 In 1797 Hawkins states that the trader here was "Charles Weatherford, a man of infamous character, 
a dealer in stolen horses; condemned and reprieved the 28th of May."— Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc., IX, p. 170; 
the last clause, afier " but," is wanting in Hie Lib. of Cong. MS. 
