310 BUREAU OF AMERICAN RTIIXdHniV [bull. 73 
In the year 1729, an old chief of Oussetuh, called by the white people Captain 
Ellick, married three Uchee women, and brought them to Cussetuh, which was greatly 
disliked by his towns people; their opposition determined him to move from Cussetuh; 
he went down opposite where the town now is, and settled with his three brothers; 
two of whom had Uchee wives; he, after this, collected all the Uchees, gave them the 
land where their town now is, and there they settled. 
These people are more civil and orderly than their neighbors; their women are more 
chaste, and the men better hunters; they retain all their original customs and laws, 
and have adopted none of the Creeks; they have some worm fences in and about their 
town, but very few peach trees. 
They have lately begun to settle out in villages, and are industrious, compared with 
their neighbors; the men take part in the labors of the women, and are more constant 
in their attachment to their women than is usual among red people. 
The number of gun men is variously estimated ; they do not exceed two hundred and 
fifty, including all who are settled in villages, of which they have three. 
1st. In-tuch-cul-gau; from in-tuch-ke, a dam across water [a "cut off"]; andul-gau, 
all; applied to beaver dams. This is on Opil-thluc-co, twenty-eight miles from its 
junction with Flint River. This creek is sixty feet wide at its mouth, one and a half 
miles above Timothy Barnard's; the land bordering on the creek, up to the village, is 
good. Eight miles below the village the good land spreads out for four or five miles 
on both sides of the creek, with oaky woods (Tuck-au-mau-pa-fau); the range is fine 
for cattle; cane grows on the creeks, and reeds on all the branches. 
They have fourteen families in the village; their industry is increasing; they built 
a square in 1798, which serves for their town house; they have a few cattle, hogs, and 
horses. 1 
2d. Pad-gee-li-gau [padjilaiga]; from pad-jee, a pidgeon; and ligau, sit; pidgeon 
roost. This was formerly a large town, but broken up by Benjamin Harrison and his 
associates, who murdered sixteen of their gun men in Georgia; it is on the right bank 
of Flint River, and this creek, adjoining the river; the village takes its name from the 
creek; it is nine miles below the second falls of the river; 2 these falls are at the island's 
ford, where the path now crosses from Cussetuh to Fort Wilkinson; the village is 
advantageoulsy situated ; the land is rich, the range good for cattle and hogs; the swamp 
is more than three miles through, on the left bank of the river, and is high and good 
canebrake; on the right bank, it is one mile through, low and flat; the cane, sassafras, 
and sumach, are large; this extensive and valuable swamp extends down on one side or 
the other of the river for twelve miles. 
They have but a few families there, notwithstanding it is one of the best situations 
the Indians possess, for stock, farming, and fish. Being a frontier, the great loss 
they sustained in having sixteen of their gun men murdered discourages them from 
returning. 3 
3d. Toc-co-gul-egau (tad pole) [toki ulga, tadpole place] ; a small settlement on Kit- 
cho-foo-ne Creek, near some beaver dams on branches of that creek; the land is good, 
but broken ; fine range, small canes, and pea vines on the hills, and reeds on the branches; 
they have eight or ten families; this establishment is of two years only, and they have 
worm fences. U-che Will, the head of the village has some cattle, and they have 
promised to attend to hogs, and to follow the direction of the agent for Indian affairs, 
as soon as they can get into stock. 
i Also see Hawkins in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, pp. 171-172. 
2 "18 miles above Timothy Barnard's and 9 miles below the old horse path, the first rock falls in the 
ri\ -or. "—Hawkins, in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., DC, p. 171. 
3 Another description by the same writer, largely parallel, is in Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., ix, p. 171. 
