swavp.nI EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIAN'S 241 
Hawkins describes the town as follows, as it existed in 1799: 
Coo-aau; od the left hank, of Coo-sau, between two creeks, Eu-fau-lau and Nau-chee. 
The town borders on the firsl . above; and on the other river. The town is on a high 
and beautiful hill; the land on the river is rich and flat, for two hundred yards, then 
waving and rich, fine for wheat and corn. It is a limestone country, with fine springs, 
and a wry desirable one; there is reed on the branches, and pea-vine in the rich bot- 
toms and hillsides, moss in the river and on the rock beds of the creek. 
They get fish plentifully in the spring season, near the mouth of Eu-fau-lau-hat-che ; 
they arc rook, trout, buffalo, red horse and perch. They have fine stocks of horses, 
hogs and cattle; the town gives name to the river, and is sixty miles above 
Tus-kee-gee. 1 
Coosa had evidently fallen off very much from its ancient grandeur 
and its name does not appear in the census enumeration of 1832. 
Those who lived there abandoned their town some years after 1799, 
and settled a few miles higher up on the east side of the river near 
what is now East Bend. 2 It is not now represented by any existing 
town among the Creeks, but the name is well known and still appears 
in war titles. From the census list of 1761 one might judge that part 
of the Coosa had moved down on Tallapoosa Kiver and settled with 
the Fus-hatchee people, with whom they would have gone to Florida 
and afterwards, in part at least, to the southern part of the Seminole 
Nation, Oklahoma. 3 The French census of about 1760 associates 
them rather with the Kan-hatki, but the fate of Kan-hatki and Fus- 
hatchee was the same. 4 What happened to the greater portion of 
them will be told presently. 
Besides Coosa proper we find a town placed on several maps be- 
tween Tuskegee and Koasati and called "Old Coosa," or "Coussas 
old village." From the resemblance of the name to that of the 
Koasati as usually spelled, and the proximity of the two places, 
Gatschet thought it was another term applied to the latter. 5 But on 
the other hand we often find Coosa-old-town and Koasati on the same 
map, and both are mentioned separately in the enumerations of 1760 
and 1761. 6 The fact that, according to the same lists, there were Coosa 
on Tallapoosa River not far away, associated with the Fus-hatchee 
and Kan-hatki, would strengthen the belief that there were really some 
Coosa Indians at this place. Even if there were not, the name itself 
clearly implies that the site had once been occupied by Coosa Indians, 
and by inference at a time anterior to the settlement of the Coosa 
already considered. Without traceable connection with any of these 
bodies is "a Small Settlement of Indians called theCousah old Fields" 
1 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, p. 41. 
2 Plate 8; Roycein 18th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pt. 2, pi. cvm, map of Alabama. 
» Ga. Col. Docs., vin, p. 523. 
* Miss, l'rov. Arch., I, p. 94. 
» Creek Mig. Leg., i. p. 137. 
6 Miss, l'rov. Arch., I, p. 94; Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 524. 
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