bwantom] EARLY BISTORT? OF THE CREEK INDIANS 203 
Larkin's Landing in Jackson County." 1 Either this was a new 
settlement by the people we are considering or 1784 marks the date 
when Cherokee came to live there. The former alternative may 
\ ci y well have been the true one, because the earlier settlement 
appears not to have been on the mainland. We do not know whether 
these Ko.isji 1 i were finally absorbed into the Cherokee or whether they 
emigrated. 
The southern Koasati settlement seems to be mentioned first 
in the enumeration of 1750, where the name is spelled "Couchati," 
and in the census of 1760 where it appears as "Conchatys." 2 It 
occurs often on maps, however, and in approximately the same place. 
The first allusion to the tribe in literature is probably by Adair, who 
speaks of " two great towns of the Koo-a-sah-te" as having joined the 
Creek Confederacy. 3 In the list of towns made out in 1761 in order to 
assign them to traders "Coosawtee including Tomhetaws" is enumer- 
ated as having 1 25 hunters, but is not assigned to anyone on account 
of its proximity to the French fort. 4 Shortly after this list was made 
out occurred the cession of Mobile to England and the movement of 
so many Indian tribes across the Mississippi. This occasioned the 
Koasati removal thus referred to by Adair: 
Soon after West-Florida was ceded to Great Britain, two warlike towns of the Koo. 
a-sah te Indians removed from near the late dangerous Alabama French garrison to 
the ( 'hoktah country about twenty-five miles below Tombikbe — a- strong wooden 
fortress, situated on the western side of a high and firm bank, overlooking a narrow 
deep point of the river of Mobille, and distant from that capital one hundred leagues. 
The discerning old war chieftain of this remnant perceived that the proud Muskohge, 
instead of reforming their conduct towards us, by our mild remonstrances, grew only 
more impudent by our lenity; therefore being afraid of sharing the justly deserved fate 
of the others, he wisely withdrew to this situation; as the French could not possibly 
supply them, in case we had exerted ourselves, either in defence to our properties or in 
revenge of the blood they had shed. But they were soon forced to return to their for- 
mer place of abode, on account of the partiality of some of them to their former con- 
federates; which proved lucky in its consequences, to the traders, and our southern 
colonies: for, when three hundred warriors of the Muskohge were on their way to the 
Choktah to join them in a war against us, two Kooasahte horsemen, as allies, were 
allowed to pass through their ambuscade in the evening, and they gave notice of 
the impending danger. These Kooasahte Indians annually sanctify the mulberries 
by a public oblation, before which they are not to be eaten; which, they say, is accord- 
ing to their ancient law. 5 
They were accompanied in this movement by some Alabama of 
Okchaiutci, and apparently by the Tamahita. In 1771 Romans passed 
their deserted fields on the Tombigbee, which he places 3 miles below 
the mouth of Sucarnochee River. 6 Not many j^ears later the lure of 
the west moved them again and a portion migrated into Louisiana. 
' Pub. Ala. Hist. Soc.,i,p. 417. * Ga. Col. Docs., vin, p. 524. 
- MS .. \y,T Lib.; Miss, l'rov. Arch, i, p. 94. A. lair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 267. 
« Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 257. « Romans, Nat. Hist, of E. &W. Fla., pp. 326-32". 
