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head of Sumulga Hatchee River, 20 miles north of St. Marks." The 
chief at that time was "Alac Hajo" (Ahalak hadjo, "potato hadjo"). 1 
I have given their history elsewhere. 2 
According to an aged Oklahoma Seminole who was born in 
Florida, the people of Tallahassee, where the State capital now 
stands, were Sawokli. It appears from the early records that this 
was an old Florida settlement, but I have no other evidence regarding 
its origin. The Cull-oo-sau hat-che (Kalusa hatchi) town of Hawkins 
I believe to have been occupied by some of the earlier natives of Florida, 
which, as has been seen, had remained down into American times. 3 
The history of the earliest Muskogee element in Florida is rescued 
for us in part by Romans, who says: 
About the middle of the land, nearly in latitude 28, is a village called New Eufala, 
being a colony from Yufala, in the Upper Creek Nation, planted in 1767, in a beautiful 
and fertile plain. 4 
Although a little too far south, as given by him, there is reason to 
believe that this is the town later known as Tco'ko tca'ti, or "Red 
House," and sometimes as "Red Town," between the Big hammock 
and the hammock called from the name of this town " Chucoochartie 
hammock." 
There is no way of determining whence the populations of " We-cho- 
took-me" and "Tallau-gue chapco pop-cau," the two remaining towns 
in Hawkins's list, were drawn, nor those of most of the towns men- 
tioned by Bartram. We-cho-took-me was remembered by Jackson 
Lewis, the informant to whom I have so often referred. He pro- 
nounced the name Oetcotukni and interpreted it to mean "where 
there is a pond of water." 
A few years after the date set by Romans, namely in 1778, a new 
Muskogee element appears in this region contributed by the towns 
of Kolomi, Fus-ha tehee and Okchai, besides an Alabama contingent 
from Tawasa and Kan-tcati. 5 
After the conclusion of the Creek war of 1813-14 great numbers of 
Creeks, especially from the Upper Creek country, in a few cases entire 
towns, descended into Florida, increasing the original population by 
about two-thirds. And, whereas we have seen that up to this time 
the Hitchiti element was predominant, it now begins to be swallowed 
up or overshadowed by that of the true Creeks or Muskogee. The 
distinction between the older or true Seminole and the later comers 
was maintained for a time, as appears in the reports and documents 
of the early years of the nineteenth century relating to Indian affairs 
in Florida. One of the most important statements in this connection 
i See p. 411. * Romans, Concise Nat. Hist. Fia., p. 280. 
» See p. 108. » MS., Lib. Cong. 
» See p. 344. 
