swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 259 
"YlapeV' 1 and in those of 1760 2 and 1761. 3 In the third of these 
there is also a "Little Hilibi." 2 In 1761 it was assigned, along with 
its outset tlements, to Crook & Co. 3 Bartram places it among the 
Coosa towns, 4 and Swan gives it as one of the towns "central, inland, 
in the high country, between the Coosa and Tallapoosee Rivers, in 
the district called the Ilillabees." 5 The town and its branches are 
thus described by Hawkins: 
Hill-au-bee; an Col-luf-fa-dee [kalofti=" bluff "], which joins Hill-au-bee Creek, 
on the right side, one mile below the town. Hill-au-bee joins the Tallapoosa on its 
right bank, eight miles below New-yau-cau. Onechief only, Ene-hau-thluc-co Hau-jo 
[Ileniha lako Iladjo], resides in the town; the people are settled out in the four 
following villages: 
1st. Thla-noo-che au-bau-lau; from thlenne flini], a mountain, oo-che [utci], little, 
and au-bau-lau [abala], over. The name is expressive of its position. It is situated 
over a little m< >untain, fifteen miles above the town, on the northwest branch of Hill- 
au-bee ( 'reek; the town house of this village is on the left side of the creek. 
2nd. Au-net-te chap-co; from au-net-te, a swamp, and chapco, long. 6 It is situ- 
ated on Choo-fun-tau-lau-hat-che [tcufi italwa hatci, Rabbit Town Creek], which 
joins Hill-au-bee Creek three miles north from the town; the village is ten miles 
above the town. 
3d. E-chuse-ifl-li-gau (where a young thing was found). A young child was 
found here, and that circumstance gives it the name. This village is four miles 
below the town, on the left side of Hill-au-bee Creek. 
4th. Ook-tau-hau-zau-see; from ook-tau-hau [oktaha], sand, and zau-see [sasi], a 
great deal. It is two miles from the town, on a creek of that name, a branch of Hill- 
au-bee, which it joins a quarter of a mile below Col-luf-fa-dee, at a great shoal. 
The land on these creeks, within the scope of the four villages, is broken and stoney, 
with coarse gravel; the bottoms and small bends of the creeks and branches are rich. 
The upland is generally stiff, rich, and fit for culture. Post oak, black oak, pine, and 
hickory, all small, are the growth. The whole abounds in veins of reeds and reedy 
branches. They call this the winter reed, as it clusters like the cane. 
The villages are badly fenced, the Indians are attentive to their traders, and several 
of them are careful of stock, and have cattle and hogs, and some few have horses. 
Four half-breeds have fine stocks of cattle. Thomas has one hundred and thirty cattle 
and ten horses. Au-wil-lau-gee, 7 the wife of O-pi-o-che-tus-tun-nug-gee, 8 has seventy 9 
cattle These Indians promised the agent, in 1799, to begin and fence their fields; 
they have one hundred and seventy gunmen in the four villages. 
Robert Grierson, 10 the trader, a native of Scotland, has, by a steady conduct, con- 
tributed to mend the manners < if these people. He has five children, half breeds, and 
governs them as Indians, and makes them and his whole family respect him, and is 
• MSS., Ayer Coll. 
» Miss. Prov. Arch., i, p. 95. 
« Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 523. 
* Bartram, Travels, p. 462. 
» Schoolcraft, In<l. Tribes, v, p. 202. 
« Au-net-te really means a grassy thicket that one can hardly get through; a swamp is pilofa. A battle 
was fought here on Jan. 24, 1S14. 
7 Awalgi, "they came out." 
8 Abohiyutci tastanagi, "Putting-something-down warrior." 
8 The published edition has "seven." 
10 In notes taken in 1797 Hawkins adds that " David Hay was his hireling, " and that another white man 
In Hilibi, evident ly a trai fer, was " Stephen Hawkins, an act ivo man of weak mind; fond of drink, and much 
of a savage when drunk. "— Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 169. Robert Grierson was the direct ancestor of 
the late G. W. Grayson, chief of the Creek Nation. 
