swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK [NDIANS 269 
The Frs-ii atciiee 
The descriptive name of the Fus-hatchee and their intimate rela- 
tions with Kolomi, Kan-hatki, and Atasi lead me to believe that they 
were a comparatively late branch of one of these. They appear first 
on the De Crenay map of 1733, in which they are placed on the south 
side of the Tallapoosa. 1 They are also in the lists of 1738, 1750, 1760, 
and 17()1.-' James Germany was their trader in the last mentioned 
year. In 1797 the trader was Nicholas White. 3 The name is in the 
lists of Bart lain ' and Hawkins,"' and is evidently the " Coosahatchies " 
of Swan. In his lisl of Creek traders, made in May, 1797, Hawkins 
assigns none to this town; but in a second, dated the following 
September, he gives the name of William McCart, who had formerly 
been a hireling of Abraham M. Mordecai at Holiwahali. 7 Hawkins 
describes the town as follows: 
Foosce-hot-che ; from foo-so-wau, a bird, and hot-che, tail. 8 It is two miles below 
Ho-ith-le-wau-le [Holiwahali] on the right bank of Tal-la-poo-sa, on a narrow strip of 
flat bind; the broken lands are just back of the town; the cornfields are on the oppo- 
site side of the river, and arc divided from those of Ho-ith-le-wau-le by a small creek, 
Xno-coose-che-po. On the right bank of this little creek, half a mile from the river, 
is the remains of a ditch which surrounded a fortification, and back of this for a mile 
is the appearance of old settlements, and back of these, pine slashes. 
The cornfields are narrow, and extend down, bordering on the river. 9 
This was one of those towns which went to Florida after the Creek- 
American war, and consequently we find no mention of it in the 
census list of 1832. A small band is noted in northern Florida 
as early as 1778. 10 It was accompanied by Kan-hatki, and after 
the Seminole war the two moved westward together and formed a 
single settlement in the southern part of the Seminole Nation. There 
they constituted one district, known as Fus-hatchee. and were so rep- 
resented in the Seminole council. Their square ground was, however, 
known as Liwahali, because the leaders in forming it are said to have 
been Holiwahali Indians. 
The Kan-hatki 
The history of the Kan-hatki or Ikan-hatki ("White ground") is 
parallel with that of the Fus-hatchee. They appear on the De 
Crenay map, in the lists of 1738, 1750, 1760, and 1761, and in those 
1 Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. 
»MSS., Ayer Lib.; Miss. Prov. Arch., i, p. 94; Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 523. 
»Ga. nist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 168. 
< Bartram, Travels, p. 461. 
•Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, p. 25. 
'Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
' Ga. ITist. Soc. Colls., ix, pp. 168, 195. 
8 This is erroneous. It should be fuswa, bird, and hatci, river or stream. 
» Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., m, p. 33. 
>° Copy of MS. in Lib. Cong. 
