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encountered in 1778 between the Choctawhatchee and Apalachicola 
Rivers by a British expedition under David Holmes sent into East 
Florida from Pensacola. 1 
Still another branch of this tribe was in all probability the Coosa 
of South Carolina which has been elsewhere considered. 2 
By common tradition and the busk expression, " We are Kos-istagi, " 
still used by them, we know that there are several other towns 
descended from Coosa, though no longer bearing the name. The 
most important of these was Otciapofa, commonly called "Hickory 
Ground," whose people came from Little Tulsa. Little Tulsa was 
the seat of the famous Alexander McGillivray and was located on the 
east bank of Coosa River 3 miles above the falls. After his death the 
inhabitants all moved to the Hickory Ground, Otciapofa, which was on 
the same side of the river just below the falls. 3 The condition of this 
latter town in 1799 is thus described by Hawkins: 
O-che-au-po-f au ; from Oche-ub* a hickory tree, and po-fau, in or among, called by 
the traders, hickory ground. It is on the left bank of the Coosau, two miles above the 
fork of the river, and one mile below the falls, on a flat of poor land, just below a small 
stream; the fields are on the right side of the river, on rich flat land; and this flat 
extends back for two miles, with oak and hickory, then pine forest; the range out in 
this forest is fine for cattle ; reed is abundant in all the branches. 
The falls can be easily passed in canoes, either up or down; the rock is very different 
from that of Tallapoosa; here it is ragged and very coarse granite; the land bordering 
on the left side of the falls is broken or waving, gravelly, not rich. At the termina- 
tion of the falls there is a fine little stream, large enough for a small mill, called, from 
the clearness of the water, We-hemt-le, good water. 4 Three and a half miles above the 
town are ten apple trees, planted by the late General McGillivray; half a mile further 
up are the remains of Old Tal-e-see, 5 formerly the residence of Mr. Lochlan 6 and his 
son, the general. Here are ten apple trees, planted by the father, and a stone chimney, 
the remains of a house built by the son, and these are all the improvements left by 
the father and son. 
These people are, some of them, industrious. They have forty gunmen, nearly 
three hundred cattle, and some horses and hogs; the family of the general belong to 
this town; he left one son and two daughters; the son is in Scotland, with his grand- 
father, and the daughters with Sam Macnack [Moniac], a half-breed, their uncle; the 
property is much of it wasted. The chiefs have requested tho agent for Indian affairs 
to take charge of the property for the son, to prevent its being wasted by the sisters 
of the general or by their children. Mrs. Durant, the oldest sister, has eight children. 
She is industrious, but has no economy or management. In possession of fourteen 
working negroes, she seldom makes bread enough, and they live poorly. She can 
spin and weave, and is making some feeble efforts to obtain clothing for her family. 
The other sister, Sehoi, has about thirty negroes, is extravagant and heedless, neither 
spins nor weaves, and has no government of her family. She has one son, David Tale 
[Tate?] who has been educated in Philadelphia and Scotland. He promises to do 
better. 7 
i Copy of MS.,, Lib. Cong. 5 Little Tulsa. 
2 See p. 25. 6 The Lib. Cong. MS. has "Mr. Lochlan McGilli- 
3 Hawkins in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., IX, p. 44. vray." 
« Wi hili= " good water." ; Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, pp. 39-40. 
