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we can not separate them from the band set down as "Moskoky' — 
the Muskogee. In Jackson's letter 11 towns beside two on the 
Suwanee are definitely identified as having come from the Creeks, 
and nearly all of these were from the Upper Creeks. 1 The remaining 
seven are either given as containing strictly Florida people or else are 
passed over without comment, and among them are one or two which 
there is reason to believe belong among the later comers. The relation 
of two to one, which I have already mentioned as representing prob- 
ably the proportion of refugee Creeks to old Seminole, is therefore 
maintained roughly, even in the number of their towns. The 
"Spanish Indians," consisting of remnants of the ancient Florida 
peoples, are not included in this enumeration. 
The Seminole towns moved about so frequently and their names 
were altered so often that it is impossible to give a complete history 
of the people by towns, or to identify in every case the tribes which 
occupied them. Two or three town lists have been preserved from 
the period just before the outbreak of the Seminole war and it may 
be of some interest to insert these. They vividly illustrate the truth 
of the statement I have just made. The first is contained in a letter 
of Capt. John H. Bell, agent for the Indians in Florida, addressed to 
a committee of Congress, in February, 1821, and reproduced by 
Jedidiah Morse in his Report on Indian Affairs. 2 It is as follows: 
1. Red-town, at Tampa Bay. Number of souls unknown. 
2. Oc-lack-o-na-yahe, above Tampa Bay. A number of souls. 
3. O-po-nays Town, back of Tampa Bay. 
4. Tots-ta-la-hoeets-ka, or Watermelon Town, on the seaboard, west side Tampa Bay; 
the greater part of all these fled from the Upper Creeks when peace was given to that 
nation. 
5. A-ha-pop-ka, situated back of the Musquitoe. 
6. Low-walta Village, composed of those who fled from Coosa, and followed McQueen 
and Francis, their prophets. 
7. McQueen's Village, east side Tampa Bay. 
8. A-lack-a-way-talofa, in the Alachua Plains. A great number of souls. Took-o- 
sa-moth-lay, the chief. 
9. Santa-fee-talofa, at the east fork of Suwany. Lock-taw-me-coocky, the chief. 
10. Waw-ka-sau-su, on the east side of the mouth of the Suwany, on the seaboard; 
these are from the Coosa River, followers of McQueen and Francis. 
11. Old Suwany Town, burnt in 1818, on the Suwany River. These are from the 
Tallapoosa towns, and they are from the Upper Creeks. 
12. A-la-pa-ha-talofa, west of Suwany and east of the Miccasuky. The chief Ock- 
mulgee is lately dead. 
13. Wa-cissa-talofa, at the head of St. Mark's River. These are from the Chatta- 
houchy, Upper Creeks. 
14. Willa-noucha-talofa, near the head of St. Mark's River, west of Wa-cissa-talofa. 
Natives of Florida. 
» See below. « Morse, Rept. to the Sec. of War, pp. 306-308. 
