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"Fish Pond" occurs first in Bartram, 1 but it was often applied 
to the Okchai Indians generally, and Lalogalga appears first as a 
distinct settlement in Swan's list, 1791. 2 Hawkins (1799) describes 
it thus: 
Thlot-lo-gul-gau; from thlot-lo, fish; and ulgau, all; called by the traders fishponds. 
It is on a small pond-like creek, a branch of Ul-kau-hat-che, which joins Tallapoosa 
four miles above Oc-fus-kee, on the right side. The town is fourteen miles up the 
creek; the land about it is open and waving; the soil is dark and gravelly; the general 
growth of trees is the small hickory; they have reed in the branches. 
Hannah Hale resides here. She was taken prisoner from Georgia when about 
eleven or twelve years old, and married the head man of this town, by whom she 
has five children. This woman spins and weaves, and has taught two of her daughters 
to spin; she has labored under many difficulties, yet by her industry has acquired 
some property. She has one negro boy, a horse or two, sixty cattle, and some hogs; 
she received the friendly attention of the agent for Indian affairs as soon as he came 
into the nation. He furnished her with a wheel, loom, and cards; she has an orchard 
of peach and apple trees. Having made her election at the national council in 1799 
to reside in the nation, the agent appointed Hopoithle Haujo to look out for a suitable 
place for her, to help her to remove to it with her stock, and take care that she receives 
no insiUts from the Indians. 3 
In 1796 the traders stationed there were "John Shirley and Isaac 
Thomas, the first an American, the latter of German parents." 4 
Evidently this is one of the two Fish Pond towns mentioned in 
the census list of 1832. 5 There is a square ground of the name in 
Oklahoma at the present time, but those who formed it were not direct 
descendants of the people who formed the old Lalogalga town. 
When the removal took place all of the Okchai Indians came together 
and established one square ground near the present Hanna, Okla. 
Later, as the result of a fission in the tribe brought about by 
the Civil War, part moved away and settled near Okemah some- 
time after 1870. There they revived the old term Lalogalga, which 
they have since employed. 
Asilanabi was founded later than the first Lalogalga and was so 
named because it was first located in a place where Ilex vomitoria 
was to be gathered. We do not find the name in print until we come 
to the census rolls of 1832. 5 There is a square ground in Oklahoma 
so called, but, as hi the case of Lalogalga, it has no historical con- 
tinuity with the older settlement. It is the result of a later fission. 
The Okchai living in Oklahoma claim that Potcas hatchee (Hatchet 
Creek) was a former settlement of theirs which was "lost." It was 
in existence in Hawkins's time and appears in the census list of 
1832. 6 The following is Hawkins's description of it: 
Po-chuse-hat-che; from po-chu-so-wau, a hatchet, and hat-che, a creek. This 
creek joins Coosau, four miles below Puc-cun-tal-lau-has-see, on its right bank; this 
i Bartram, Travels, p. 462. & Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 
2 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, V, p. 262. 297-29S. 
a Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, pp. 49-50; ix, p. 170. 6 Ga. Hist, Soc. Colls., m, p. 50; Senate Doc. 512, 
* Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 34. 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 284-285. 
