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and disposition, industrious, prudent and affectionate; and by her he has several 
children, whom he is desirous to send to Savanna or Charleston, for their education, 
but can not prevail on his wife to consent to it. 1 
In May, 1797, according to a list compiled by Hawkins, there was 
no trader in this town, but in a subsequent list, dated September of 
the same year, he gives William Gregory, who was formerly a hire- 
ling of Nicholas White at Fus-hatchee. 2 Swan (1791) mentions the 
place, 3 and Hawkins (1799) thus describes it: 
Coo-loo-me is below and near to Foosce-hat-che, on the right side of the river; the 
town is small and compact, on a flat much too low, and subject to be overflowed in 
the seasons of floods, which is once in fifteen or sixteen years, always in the winter 
season, and mostly in March; they have, within two years, begun to settle back, next 
to the broken lands; the cornfields are on the opposite side, joining those of Foosce- 
hat-che, and extend together near four miles down the river, from one hundred to 
two hundred yards wide. Back of these hills there is a rich swamp of from four to 
six hundred yards wide, which, when reclaimed, must be valuable for corn and rice 
and could be easily drained into the river, which seldom overflows its banks, in spring 
or summer. 
They have no fences; they have huts' in the fields to shelter the laborers in the 
summer season from rain, and for the guards set to watch the crops while they are 
growing. At this season some families move over and reside in their fields, and return 
with their crops into the town. There are two paths, one through the fields on the 
river bank, and the other back of the swamp. In the season for melons the Indians 
of this town and Foosce-hat-che show in a particular manner their hospitality to all 
travellers, by calling to them, introducing them to their huts or the shade of their 
trees, and giving them excellent melons, and the best fare they possess. Opposite 
the town house, in the fields, is a conical mound of earth thirty feet in diameter, ten 
feet high, with large peach trees on several places. At the lower end of the fields, on 
the left bank of a fine little creek, Le-cau-suh, is a pretty little village of Coo-loo-me 
people, finely situated on a rising ground; the land up this creek is waving pine 
forest. 4 
The name of this town is wanting from the census rolls of 1832, 
and there is little doubt that the tradition is correct which states 
that it was one of those which went to Florida after the Creek war 
of 1813. 5 A part of the Kolomi people were already in that country, 
since they are noted in papers of John Stuart, the British Indian agent, 
dated 1778. 6 • According to a very old Creek Indian, now dead, Kolomi 
decreased so much in numbers that it united with Fus-hatchee, and 
Fus-hatchee decreased so much that it united with Atasi, with which 
the town of Kan-hatki, to be mentioned below, also combined. But, 
as we shall see, this can not have been altogether true, though it is an 
undoubted fact that the towns mentioned were closely united in terms 
of friendship. While Kolomi is still preserved as a war name very 
few of the Creeks in Oklahoma remember it as a town. 
i Bartram, Travels, pp. 447-448. 6 See Gatschet in Misc. Colls. Ala. Hist. Soc., I, 
2 Ga. Hist. Soe. Colls., ix, pp. 168-195. p. 401. 
8 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. « Copy of MS. in Lib Cong. 
» Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ra, pp. 33-34. 
