s wanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 279 
which he says that Indians reported the English to have visited 
"the province of Ticopache." 1 From the description it would 
appear that Coweta lay between this "province" and Carolina. In 
1695, in retaliation for attacks upon the Apalachee, an expedition 
consisting of 400 Apalachee Indians and 7 Spaniards visited the 
towns of Coweta, Kasihta, Oconee, and Tukabahchee ("Tiqui- 
pache"). In one — the narrative does not say which — they cap- 
tured 50 persons, but they found the other places burned and aban- 
doned. 2 The Oconee were on the Oconee River at this time and 
the Coweta and Kasihta on the Ocmulgee, so that it seems probable 
the Tukabahchee were then in the same general region. They 
perhaps removed as a result of the attack. Tukabahchee Talla- 
hassee, noticed above as an Okfuskee town and located on the upper 
course of Tallapoosa River, 3 was probably so named because it 
occupied a site formerly held by the Tukabahchee, and it is likely 
that this was after their removal from Georgia. 
It is to be noted that in most Tukabahchee traditions the Shawnee 
play a leading part, and Gatschet says that some Tukabahchee 
claimed they were Shawnee. This statement may, however, be 
accounted for by the metaphorical term employed to designate 
certain Tukabahchee clans. This association and their tradition 
of a northern origin lead to the suggestion that the Tukabahchee 
may have been those mysterious Kaskinampo discussed elsewhere 
who in the seventeenth century are frequently connected with the 
Shawnee Indians. 4 
In the South Carolina records under date of 1712 mention is made 
of two "Tukabugga" slaves. 5 The Tukabahchee appear among 
the Upper Creeks, but at an indeterminate place, on the De Crenay 
map of 1733. 6 Here the word is spelled " Totipaches," in the list 
of 1738 "Tiquipaxche," in that of 1750 "Totipache," and on the 
census list of 1760 "Totepaches." 7 In 1761 James McQueen and 
T. Perryman were officially recognized traders at this town, "includ- 
ing Pea Creek and other Plantations, Chactaw Hatchee Euchees, &c." 8 
In 1797 the traders there were Christopher Heickle, a German, and 
Obadiah Lowe. 9 Bartram 10 and Swan 11 mention it, and Hawkins 
gives the following description of the town as it existed in 1799: 
Took-au-bat-che. The ancient name of this town is Is-po-co-gee; its derivation 
uncertain; it is situated on the right bank of the Tallapoosa, opposite the junction of 
i Serrano y Sanz, Doc. Hist., p. 195. • Plate 5; also Hamilton, Col. Mobile, p. 190. 
t Ibid., p. 225. i MSS., Aver Lib.: Miss. Prov. Arch., i, p. 95. 
• See p. 247. Cf. "Tukabatch >M Fields," of 8 Ga. Col. Does., vm, p. 523. 
plate 8. 9 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. L68 
* Bee pp. 213-214. i" Bartram, Travels, p. 161. 
<> l'roc. of Hoard Dealing with Ind. Trade, p. 59, » Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
MS. 
