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TOMEYCHEE TOMPIEO 



[B. A. E. 



been captured by the Apache and Co- 

 manche, sold by them to the Spaniards, 

 and released from s^ervitude by the gov- 

 ernor of New Mexico to form this settle- 

 ment as a mission visita of Isleta pueblo. 

 This seems to have been in 1740, although 

 in the previous year a grant of 121,593 

 acres in and about Tome was made to 

 J. Valera and others, representing 30 

 families, evident! v Si)anish (Bancroft, N. 

 Mex. and Ariz., "243, 253, 758-9, 1889). 

 In 1748 Villa-Senor (Theatro Am., 416) re- 

 ported the population to be 40 families; 

 in 1766 there were 70 families. According 

 to Lummis (New Mex. David, 95, 100, 

 1891) Tome was settled by Ignacio Baca 

 with 50 Spanish families in 1769, and 

 it seems to have lost its character as an 

 Indian settlement about tliis time. From 

 1852 to 1872 and from 1874 to 1876 Tome 

 was the county seat of Vaienciaco. In the 

 spring of 1905 it was destroyed by a sudden 

 rise of the Bio Grande. (f. w. n. ) 



Concepcion.— Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 281, 1889 

 (visita name). Genizaros. — Villa-Senor, Theatro 

 Am., II, 4Ui, 17-18. S. Thomas.— Pike, Exped., map, 

 1810. Tome Dominguez.— Baiurol't, N. Mex. and 

 Ariz., 243, 1889. Town of the Broken Promise. — 

 Lummis, N. Mex. David, 100, 1891 (transl. of 

 Indian [Tigua?] name). Valencia. — Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. l\Icx., 2n3, 1889 (Tome or, not the 

 present town of Valencia). 



Tomeychee. See TomochicJd. 



Tomhog, Tommyliawk. See Tomahftvjk. 



Tomo. A Cahisa village on the s. w. 

 coast of Florida a))Out 1570. — Fontaneda 

 Memoir {m. 1575), Smith trans., 19, 1854. 



Tomochachi. See Tomochicld. 



Tomochic ('winter house.' — Och). A 

 Tarahumare settlement in w. Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, near the head of Mayo r., lat. 28° 

 30% Ion. 107° 40^— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 323, 1864. 



Tomochichi (spelled also Bocachee, Te- 

 mochichi, Thamachaychee, Thomochi- 

 chi, Tomachachi, Tomeychee, etc., and 

 said by (Tatschet to mean 'the one who 

 causes to fly up' [?]). A Creek chief, 

 noted in the early liistory of Geoi-gia. 

 He was originally of Apalachukla, a Lower 

 Creek town on Chattahoochee r. in Ala- 

 bama, and his name appears in behalf 

 of this settlement in a treaty between the 

 Creeks and the Carolina government in 

 1721. Shortly afterward, fur some un- 

 known reason, he was outlawed from his 

 people and withdrew with a few follow- 

 ers to Savannah r. , where, V)y iiermission 

 of South Carolina, he established himself 

 in a new town called Yamacraw (q. v.), 

 at the present Savannah, Ga. On the 

 foundation of the Georgia colony by 

 Oglethorpe in 1733, Tomochichi assumed 

 a friendly attitude toward the newcomers 

 and was instrumental in bringing about 

 a treaty of alliance between that colony 

 and the Lower Creeks in that year. At 

 the same time a reconciliation was effected 

 between himself and his tribe, and he was 



given permission to collect his friends 

 from the various Lower Creek towns to 

 take up their residence with him at Yama- 

 craw. In the next year, 1734, with his 

 wife, nephew, and several others, he ac- 

 companied Oglethorpe to England, where 

 his well-known portrait was painted. He 

 continued t(j be helpful to the colonists 

 after his return until his death, which 

 occurred in his own town, Oct. 5, 1739, he 

 being then jierhaps 75 years of age. He 

 was given a public funeral at Savannah, 

 where a monument to his memory was 

 erected in 1899 by the Colonial Dames of 

 America. Consult Gatschet, Creek Migr. 

 Leg., 1,11,1884, 1888; Jones, Hist. Sketch 

 of Tomo(aiichi, 1868. 



The portrait here reproduced, repre- 

 senting the chief and his nephew Toona- 

 howi, is from an engraving by Klein- 



TOMOCHICHI AND HIS NEPHEW 



Schmidt, of Augsburg, Germany, of the 

 original paintingby Verelst in 1734, which 

 for some years hung in the room of the 

 Georgia Office in London. This engrav- 

 ing appeared as the frontispiece in Url- 

 sperger, Ausfuehrliche Nachricht von 

 den Salzburgischen Emigranten, Halle, 

 1735, and has since been reproduced in 

 Jones, Hist, of Ga. , i, 1883; Winsor, 

 Narr. and Crit. Hist. Am., v, 1887, and 

 elsewhere. (j. m.) 



Tomoy. A Costanoan village formerly 

 within 2 m. of Santa Cruz mission, Cal. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 5, 1860. 



Tompiro, A name used by some Span- 

 ish writers of the 17th century for that 

 division of the Biro which occupied, until 

 about 1675, the Salinas region e. of the Rio 

 Grande in central New Mexico. Their 

 pueblos included Abo, Tabira, and Ten- 



