swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 427 
Morse in 1822 says, on the authority of Young, that there were 220 
in all. 1 They may be one of the two Osochi towns in the list of 
L832 which number almost alike. 2 The omission of their name is 
strange since, after the removal to Oklahoma, they constituted a 
very important town. 
In L738j 50 men are given as belonging to the Oconee, in 1750, 30 
men, 3 and in 1760, 50 men. 4 In 1761 we find "Oconees big and 
little" given with 50 hunters. 5 There were evidently fewer in 
Hawkins's time, but meanwhile many of them had gone to Florida. 
The Spanish census of 1738 includes two Tamali towns old Tamali 
(Tamaxle el viejo) and new Tamali (Tamaxle nuevo), the first with 
12 men, the second with 26. 6 The latter, however, was probably in 
the main a Sawokl: settlement. 7 The French estimate of 1750 men- 
tions only one town of 10 men. 3 No further reference to the popula- 
tion of this town appears until we come to Young's enumeration of 
the Seminole towns included hi Morse's report, where the total popu- 
lation appears as 220. 8 
The only references bearing on the population of the Tamahita 
tribe are in the census list of 1750, where the ''Tamaita" among the 
Lower Creeks are set down as having more than 18 men, 3 and in that of 
1761 where the "Coosawtee including Tomhetaws" are credited with 
125 hunters. 8 But see pp. 188-191. 
In 1 702 Iberville estimated that the Alabama Indians consisted of 
400 families in two villages. 10 This enumeration would, of course, 
not include the Tawasa, nor probably the Pawokti, but, on the 
other hand, may have embraced some Koasati. The same limita- 
tions would probably apply to the figures in the Carolina census of 
1715. in which we find them given four villages, 214 men, and a total 
population of 770. u According to a French manuscript of the third 
decade of the same century there were then 6 Alabama towns and 
400 men. 12 The estimate of 1750 seems to mention only two Alabama 
towns with 15 and 40 men, respectively. De Kerlerec places the 
number of Alabama warriors at 1,000 in 1758, but he includes the 
Talapoosa Indians and Abihka, therefore his figure is of no value. 13 
The census of 1760 gives about 40 Tawasa men and 50 Mugulasha, 
while a town which perhaps corresponds to Okchaiutci contained 
1()() men. 14 The census of 1761 gives 30 hunters for Muklasa, 20 for 
Okchaiutci, and 70 for Wetumpka and -'Red Ground," the second 
of which was probably also an Alabama settlement, but there is no 
i Morse, op. cit. 8 See p. 409. 
* Sen. Doc. 512, pp. 353-356. ' Ga. Col. Docs., vm, p. 524. 
»MSS., AyerColl. "> Margry, De"c.,iv, p. 514. 
« Miss. Prov. Arch., op. cit. " Rivers, Chap. Early Hist. S. C, p. 94. 
» < »a. Col. Docs., op. cit. »> MS., Lib. Cong. 
• Copy of MSS., Ayer Coll. 13 Compte Rendu, Int. Cong. Am., x v sess., I, p. 83. 
i See p. 143. " Miss Prov. Arch., i, p. 94. 
