swan-ton] KAIU.Y HISTORY OF THE CBEEK INDIANS 431 
( rarcilasso's Qguring always requires, and it is not far out of the way 
as compared with Pardo's, if the latter's L50 "vecinos" means family 
groups. When Coosa reappears in history the town is small and 
decayed, but, as explained elsewhere, there is every reason to believe 
that the Coosa tribe continued to be represented by a number of the 
Leading towns of the Creek Confederacy. 
The Spanish census of 1738 gives 100 men in Coosa and 414 in the 
Coosa group of towns. 1 The French estimate of 1750 gives 30+ in 
the town and 240+ in the group. 2 In 1760 the Coosa group of 
t«>\vns numbered about 430 men, and in 1761 about 270 hunters are 
reported in them. 3 In 1792 the "Coosa of Chickasaw Camp" were 
credited with 80 men, and all the Coosa offshoots together with 440. 4 
According to the figures furnished by Hawkins the entire Coosa con- 
nection would number upward of 520, and by the census of 1832 the 
grand total was 3,792 Indians, about one-sixth of the entire Creek 
population. 
The Abihka are treated as a distinct tribe by many early writers, 
but the Coosa Indians are sometimes included with them, and per- 
haps others. This appears to be the case, for instance, in the census 
of 1715 which returned 15 Abihka towns with 502 men and a total 
population of 1773. 5 In 1738 Abihkutci, the only Abihka town 
given, was estimated to contain 30 men. 1 In 1750 the same town 
is set down with more than 60 inhabitants, 2 in 1760 with 130 men 6 
and in 1761, 50 hunters. 7 Taitt in 1772 estimates 45 gunmen, 8 and 
Marbury (1792) puts the figure as low as 15 (p. 435). In 1832 Talla- 
dega, Abihkutci, and Kan-tcadi are separately entered with a com- 
bined population of 905, exclusive of slaves. 9 
In 1738 the Wakokai included 100 men, 1 in 1750 60 + , 2 in 1760 
100 men, 10 and in 1761 60 hunters. 7 Taitt (1772) gives 100 gunmen; 11 
Marbury (1792) 300 (p. 437). In 1832 the combined population of 
Wiogufld, Tukpafka, and Sakapadai was 942 Indians and 5 slaves. 12 
1 Copy of MS., Aver Coll. 
2 MS., Aver Coll. 
' Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 95; Ga. Col. Rec, vm, p. 523. David Taitt (Travels in Am. Col., pp. 502, 528) 
stales in his diary of 1772 thai some years before his time Okfuskee numbered 300 gunmen but the town 
had then spread oul so much into branch villages that there were only about 30 gunmen in the old set- 
tlement. In the same way Great Tulsa which had once contained 100 gunmen had become reduced to 
"not above thirty'' by the settlement of two out villages, one 8, the other 25 miles off. The Coosa towns 
at about that time must have contained upward of 400 gunmen. 
* MS., Lib. Cong. 
» Rivers, Chap. Early Hist. S. Car., p. 94. 
• Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 95. 
' Ga. Col. Rec, vm, p. 523. 
8 Trav. in Am. Col., p. 534. 
» Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., rv, pp. 304-307, 315-318. 
10 Miss. Prov. Arch., I, p. 95. 
»' Trav. in Am. Col., p. 535. 
u Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., rv, pp. 286-293. 
