442 
BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHKOI.liCV 
[bull. 7!{ 
Creek and Seminole Population at Various Periods Prior to 1834 
[The figures are for the Creeks unless otherwise specified. 
Iberville 1702 
South Carolina records 1708 
Do 1715 
Bienville 1725-26 
Spanish manuscript 1738 
Georgia records 1739 ■ 
South Carolina records 1747^8 
Adair 1750( ?) 
An anonymous French estimate 1750(?) 
De Brahm 1753 
De Kerlerec 1758 
French census 1760 
Anonymous description of South Carolina 1761 
Georgia Colonial Documents 1761 
John Stuart ' 1764 
Col. Henry Bouquet j 1764 
Elam Potter 1768 
Romans \ 1771 
Bartram ' 1778 
Purcell '. 1780 
Morse 1786 
H. Knox Secretary of War 1789 
4,000-6, 
' Authorities: Iberville in Margry, Dec, iv, pp. 601-602; S. C. Pub. Rec, MS., v, pp. 207-209; Rivers, 
A Chapter in the Early Histroy of South Carolina, p. 94; Copy of Spanish MS. in Ayer Coll.; Ga. Col. Rec., 
v, p. 191; S. C. Public Records, MS., xxm, p. 75; Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., p. 257; Anonymous French 
Memoir, MS., Ayer Coll.; De Brahm, History of the Province of Georgia, p. 55; DeKerlerec in Compte 
Rendu, Int. Cong. Americanists, 1906, I, pp. 83-84; French Census in Miss. Prow Arch., I, pp. 94-97; A 
Description of S. C, pp. 60-61; Ga. Col. Rec, vm, pp. 522-524; Bouquet in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, m, p. 
559; Am. Hist. Rev., xx,4, p. 825; Potter in Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., lstser., x, p. 121; Romans, A Concise 
Nat. Hist, of E. and W. Florida, p. 91; Bartram, Travels, pp. 462-463; Purcell in Mass. Hist, Soc. Colls., 
1st ser., iv, p. 99; Morse in Rept. to Sec. of War, p. 146; Knox in American State Papers, Ind. AtT., i, p. 
60; Swan in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, p. 263; Schermerhorn in Mass. Hist, Soc. Colls., 2d ser., II, p. 20; 
Penieres in Am. State Papers, Ind. Aff., II, pp. 411-413; Am. State Papers, n, p. 439; Sehoolcrift, Ind, 
Tribes, m, p. 584; U. S. Census in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv, p. 57S; MSS., Lib. Cong. 
2 Obtained, where number of warriors is given, by multiplying by 3J. 
s Exclusive of Yamasee, Apalachicola, Shawnee, and Yuchi, but including Alabama. The last was an 
actual census. 
* Excludes Alabama and neighboring towns. 
& From this time on the Apalachicola, some Shawnee, a few Yamasee, and nearly all of the Yuchi are 
included. 
6 Evidently incomplete. 
7 Civen as 15,000. 
8 From about this time the nation lost many to Florida. 
» With 600 Alabama. 
i° Creeks and Seminole. 
