418 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 7:: 
pied by them "in the upper or most western part of the Muskohge 
country, about 300 miles eastward of their own nation," which was 
known as "Ooe-asa," the latter half of the word evidently from 
Chickasaw a n sha, to settle, to stay. 1 This can not have lasted long, 
as we find David Taitt, in a letter written at Tukabachee, March 
16, 1772, saying: 
About. Thirteen Chickasaws were at the Abicouchies lately wanting to settle in 
this Nation ; the Head man of the Town gave them leave to settle the Ground they 
formerly possessed on Condition of their Continuing in this Land, they returned to 
their own lands and it is uncertain whether they come hack. 2 
The settlement must have been attempted, however, because 11 
days later he met the very same number of Chickasaw in the Natchez 
town, and he says of them: 
These Chickasaws are making a Settlement on the side of a Creek called Caimulga, 
about 15 miles north from this, and falling into the Coosa River at the Chickasaw 
Trading path, about a mile above Clamahumgey. 3 
As a "Kiamulgatown " appears in the roll of towns taken just 
before the removal it is possible that these Chickasaw continued 
to occupy it until then, but it is more likely that they had been 
displaced by Creeks, or perhaps Shawnee. 4 
Another Chickasaw settlement was made at a very early date near 
New Windsor on the South Carolina side of Savannah River. This 
was not later than the third decade of the eighteenth century, for in 
1737, when they moved over to the newly established post of Au- 
gusta, Georgia, it is said that they had been located at the former 
place "for some time past." 5 A Chickasaw band continued near 
Augusta probably down to the period of the American Revolution. 
The chief of the band in 1737 was named the "Squirrel King." 5 
In June, 1755, we find reference to 35 Chickasaw Indians "that 
usually reside about Augusta;" 6 and under date of November 27, 
1760, the same records speak of Chickasaw settled at New Savannah, 
about 12 miles from Augusta. 7 In 1795 the tribe laid claim to land 
opposite Augusta on the basis of this early settlement, and a memorial 
was sent to the United States Government to substantiate it, 8 but 
it was probably not occupied after the Revolution. The later his- 
tory of the Savannah band is thus given by Hawkins, quoting Tasi- 
kaia miko, a Kasihta chief. It contains an interesting hint regard- 
ing the past history of the people under consideration. 
1 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 54. Mr. Halbert interprets it very plausibly as wiha ansha, "home of 
emigrants," and identifies it with the Breed Camp mentioned in the census of 1761, perhaps because the 
Chickasaw Indians are known to have been called "the breed." 
2 Mereness, Trav. in Amer. Col., pp. 525-526. 
a Ibid., pp. 531-532. 
* See p. 319. 
6Ga. Col. Rec.,iv, p. 47. 
•Ibid., vii, p. 206. 
'Ibid.,vm, p. 433. 
8 Ramsey, Ann. of Tenn., p. 81. 
