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Bartram in 1777-78 described the square of this town at some 
length; his account will be given when we come to consider the 
social organization of the confederacy. The name appears also in the 
lists of Hawkins and on the census rolls of 1832, but is omitted by 
Swan. 1 In 1797 the traders stationed there were Richard Bailey, a 
native of England, and Josiah Fisher. 2 The following is what 
Hawkins has to say of it: 
Aut-tos-see, on the left side of Tallapoosa, below and adjoining Ca-le-be-hat-che. 
A poor, miserable looking place, fenced with small poles; the first on forks in a line 
and two others on stakes hardly sufficient to keep out cattle. They have some plum 
and peach trees; a swamp back of the town and some good land back of that, a flat of 
oak, hickory and pine. On the right bank of the river, just below the town, they 
have a fine rich cove of land which was formerly a cane brake, and has been culti- 
vated. 
There is, [5 miles] below the town, one good farm made by the late Richard Bailey, 
and an orchard of peach trees. Mrs. Bailey, the widow, is neat, clean, and industrious, 
and very attentive to the interests of her family; qualities rarely to be met with in 
an Indian woman. 3 Her example has no effect on the Indians, even her own family, 
with the exception of her own children. She has fifty bee-hives and a great supply of 
honey every year; has a fine stock of hogs, cattle and horses, and they all do well. 
Her son, Richard Bailey, was educated in Philadelphia by the Government, and he 
has brought with him into the nation so much contempt for the Indian mode of life, 
that he has got himself into discredit with them. His young brother is under the 
direction of the Quakers in Philadelphia. His three sisters promise to do well, they 
are industrious and can spin. Some of the Indians have cattle; but in general, they 
are destitute of property. 
In the year 1766 there were forty-three gun men, and lately they were estimated 
at eighty. This is a much greater increase of population than is to be met with in 
other towns; they appear to be stationary generally, and in some towns are on the 
decrease; the apparent difference here, or increase, may be greater than the real; as 
formerly men grown were rated as gun men, and now boys of fifteen, who are hunters, 
are rated as gun men; they have for two years past been on the decline; are very 
sickly, and have lost many of their inhabitants; they are now rated at fifty gun men 
only. 4 
One outsettlement is mentioned by Hawkins, on "Caloebee" Creek, 
although at the time he wrote (December 27, 1797) 5 it was abandoned. 
It appears on the Purcell map (pi. 7) as ''Callobe." 
Atasi was the seat of a leading camp of hostile Indians during the 
Creek War and the site of one of its principal battles, November 29, 
1813. It suffered severely in consequence, and, whether on account 
of that struggle or for other causes, the number of Atasi Indians 
has been reduced to a mere handful. 
i Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 25; Senate Doe. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., IV, pp. 252-254. 
2 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., IX, p. 168. 
a She belonged to the Hotalgalgi, or Wind Clan.— Hawkins in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 39. Misprinted 
" Otalla (wine) family." 
* Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, pp. 31-32. 
<> Ibid., IX, p. 49. 
