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the people of Chattahoochee town not enumerated. 1 The census of 
1715 gives for the "Ochesees or Creeks," 10 towns, 731 men, and 
2,406 souls; for the "Abikaws," 15 towns, 502 men, and 1,773 souls; 
and for the "Talliboosas," 13 towns, 636 men, and 2,343 souls; or in 
all 38 towns, 1,869 men, and 6,522 souls. 2 This is exclusive of the 
Alabama, Yuchi, Shawnee, Apalachicola, and Yamasee. An esti- 
mate made in 1739 gives 1,500 warriors for the Creeks, 3 and one of 
1747-48, "not much over 2,500 men." 4 Adair says that "this nation 
is generally computed to consist of about 3,500 men fit to bear arms" ; 
and adds, on the authority of a "gentleman of distinguished char- 
acter," that they had doubled their numbers "within the space of 
thirty years past," which would be perhaps from 1720 to 1750 or 1730 
to 1760. 5 In De Brahm's "History of the Province of Georgia" the 
entire Creek population about 1753 is estimated at 15,000 and the 
number of their warriors at 3,000. 6 De Kerlerec, in 1758, estimated 
the Alabama, Tallapoosa, and Abihka Indians at 1,000 warriors, and 
the "Kaouitas" (i. e., Lower Creeks), at 2,000. 7 A French manu- 
script from the third decade of the eighteenth century seems to give 
3,500 men, exclusive of 400 Alabama, although the material is some- 
what confused. 8 An estimate dated in the year 1761 gives 2,500 
gunmen. 9 In 1764 John Stuart places the total number of Creek 
gunmen, exclusive of the Natchez, Yuchi, Shawnee, and some Ala- 
bama, at 3,600. 10 Romans estimates 3,500 gunmen in 1771," and 
Bartram, about the same time, a total poj^ulation of 11,000. 12 The 
latter arrives at his conclusion by allowing 200 persons to each of 
the 55 Creek towns known to him. 
Swan, 1791, says "the smallest of their towns have from 20 to 30 
houses in them, and some of the largest contain from 150 to 200, 
that are tolerably compact"; 13 and further on Gen. M'Gillivray 
estimates the number of gunmen to be between 5,000 and 6,000, 
exclusive of marauders, acting independent of the general interest 
of the others. The "useless" old men and the women and children 
were reckoned as three times the number of gunmen, making the 
total about 25,000 or 26,000 souls. 14 These figures are perhaps a 
little high, as the census of 1832, taken just before the removal of 
the Creeks to the other side of the Mississippi, yielded a grand total 
of 21, 759. 15 The figures given out by the U. S. Indian Office and 
i Pub. Rec. S. C, MS., v, pp. 207-209. '-A Descr. of the I'rov. of S. C, pp. 60-61. 
2 Rivers, Chap. Early Hist, of S. C, p. 94. 10 Am. Hist. Rev., xx, 4, p. 825. 
3 Ga. Col. Rec, v, p. 191. "Romans, E. and W. Fla., p. 91. 
* Pub. Rec. S. C, MS., xxni, pp. 74-75 ™ Bartram, Travels, pp. 462-463. 
5 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., pp. 257-259. " Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 262. 
<; De Brahm, Hist. I'rov. Ga., p. 55. '« Ibid., p. 263. 
' Compte Rendu, Int. Cong. Am., 1906,l,pp. 83,84 ' •• Sen. Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, 
« Copy ofMS., Lib. Cong. pp. 334-394. 
