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of Bartram, Swan, and Hawkins. 1 In 1761 their officially recognized 
traders were Crook & Co. Swan gives Kan-hatki as one of two towns 
occupied by Shawnee refugees, but this statement was probably due 
to the presence of some Shawnee from the neighboring settlement 
of Sawanogi. In September, 1797, Hawkins states that the trader 
here was a man named Copinger. 2 He gives the following account 
of the town: 
E-cun-hut-ke; from e-cun-na, earth, and hut-ke, white, called by the traders 
white ground. This little town is just below Coo-loo-me, on the same side of the 
river, and five or six miles above Sam-bul-loh, a large fine creek which has its source 
in the pine hills to the north and its whole course through broken pine hills. It 
appears to be a never-failing stream, and fine for mills; the fields belonging to this 
town are on both sides of the river. 3 
In the census list of 1832 is a town called " Ekun-duts-ke," which 
may be intended for this, but we know that a large part of the Kan- 
hatki went to Florida after 1813, and the name above given may 
have belonged to an entirely different settlement, since it could be 
translated "a section line" or "a boundary line." The later his- 
tory of the Kan-hatki is bound up with that of the Fus-hatchee, to 
which the reader is referred. 
The Wiwohka 
According to tradition, Wiwohka was a made-up or " stray" 
town, formed of fugitives from other settlements, or those who 
found it pleasanter to live at some distance from the places of their 
birth. One excellent informant stated that anciently it was called 
Witumpka, but the names mean nearly the same thing, "roaring 
water" and "tumbling water." Both designations are said to have 
arisen from the nature of the place of origin of these people, near 
falls, and these may have been the falls of the Coosa. From the 
preservation of a purely descriptive name and their comparatively 
recent appearance in Creek history it may be fairly assumed that 
they had not had a long existence. Their name appears on the De 
Crenay map, in the lists of 1738, 1750, 1760, and 1761. 4 It is wanting 
from Bartram's list, but reappears in those of Swan and Hawkins 
and in the census rolls of 1832. 5 The census of 1761 couples it with 
"New Town," and gives the traders as William Struthers and J. 
Morgan. 6 The irregular nature of its origin may perhaps be associ- 
ated with its later responsibility for the Creek war of 1813 and the 
» MSS., Ayer Lib.; Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190; Miss. Prov. Arch.,i, p. 94; Ga. Col. Docs.,vm, p. 523; 
Bartram, Travels, p. 461; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262; Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 25. 
a Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, pp. 168, 195. 
3 Ibid., m, p. 34. 
* Plate 5; MSS^ Ayer Lib.; Miss. Prov. Arch., i, p. 95; Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 523. 
6 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262; Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 25; Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., 
iv, pp. 282-283. 
« Ga. Col. Docs., op. cit. 
