bwanton] i:\ll\.\ HISTORY OF THE CREEK INIHANS 429 
In (lie census of l7(il they and the Tamahita together are reported as 
having \v.u\ 125 hunters. 1 At leas! LOO of these were undoubtedly 
Koasati. Taitt, writing in 1772, reports 10 " Alibamons" here. 2 He 
probably means 40 gunmen. In 1702 Marbury credits them with 
L30 men (see p. 437). About 1793 some of them began to move to 
Louisiana and others followed from time to time. Those that were 
left in L832 numbered 82 according to the census of that year. 3 In 
1806 Sibley states thai the Koasati in Louisiana supposed the num- 
ber of men in all their settlements there to reach 200. ' Schermerhorn 
estimates their number on the Sabine in 1814 at 600. 5 Morse, in 
1817, gives 350 on Red River, 50 on the Neches 40 miles above its 
mouth, and 240 on the Trinity, a total of 640 men. women, and 
children. 6 In 1829 Porter gives 180 Koasati. 7 Bollaert in 1850 
estimated the number of warriors among the Koasati on the lower 
Trinity alone at 500 in two villages. 8 After 1882 they were enumer- 
ated by the Indian Office along with the Alabama as given above. 
In 1910 11 were with the Alabama in Texas, 85 in Louisiana, and 2 
in Nebraska — a total of 98. 9 A few more are in Oklahoma. 
There were two branches of the Tuskegee, one of which united with 
the Cherokee. The latter was probably small and I have no data 
regarding it. The other is set down in the census of 1750 as 
containing 10 men, in that of 1760 as containing 50 men, 10 and 
in that of 1761 as containing, along with "Coosaw old town," 40 
hunters. 11 Taitt, in 1772, gives about 25 gunmen, 12 as does Marbury 
in 1 792 (p. 437). In 1799 Hawkins says they had 35 gunmen. 13 The 
census of 1832 returned 216 Indians and 35 slaves. 14 
The Spanish census of 1738 gives 111 men inKasihta, 15 the French 
census of 1750 more than 80, 15 and that of 1760, 1 50, 16 while that of 
1761 places the number of hunters belonging to it at 100. 17 With 
this Taitt (1772) agrees, 18 but Marbury (1792) raises it, counting in 
the villages, to 375 (p. 434). In 1799 Hawkins estimated the number 
i Oa. Col. Rec, vm, p. 524. 
» Trav. in Am. Col., p. 536. 
a Sen. Doo. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 265-266. 
* Sibley in Ann. Cong., 9th Cong., 2d sess., 1085. 
» Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., n, p. 26. 
8 Morse, Rept. to See. of War, p. 373. 
7 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, p. 596. 
8 Jour. Eth. Soc. of London, 2, p. 282. 
'Ind. Top., Bur. of Census, p. 18. 
'"Miss. J'rov. Arch., i, p. 94. 
» Ga. Col. Rec., vm, p. 524. 
» Trav. in Am. Col., p. 541. 
" Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., in, p. 39. 
" Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., IV, pp. 265-266. 
u Copy of MS., Aver Coll. 
»« Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 96. 
»'Ga. Col. Rec., vm, p. 522. 
is Trav. in Am. Col., p. 550. 
