Royce. | TREATY OF NOVEMBER 28, 1785. 143 
4. Keowee Towns.—Keowee, Tricentee, Echoee, Torsee, Cowee, Tor- 
salla, Coweeshee, and Elejoy. 
5. Out Towns.—Tucharechee, Kittowa, Conontoroy, Steecoy, Ousta- 
nale, and Tuckasegee. 
6. Lower Towns.—Tomassee, Oustestee, Cheowie, Estatoie, Tosawa, 
Keowee, and Oustanalle. 
About twenty years later, Bartram,' who traversed the country, gives 
the names of forty-three Cherokee towns and villages then existing and 
‘uhabited as follows: 

No. . Name. | Where situated. 

LTE es iis” SESE RSE ae ee pees | 
Nucasse 
Whatoga 
| LEN CURE SSSR ORE eesebies 
On the Tanase east of the Jore Mountains. 
WAN Ger = Shee oe eas ceeeeiae 
we 
i 
S 
o 
2 
® 

} 
MOD 222 eo aes Spee a r Tnland, on the branches of the Tanase. 
J 
| 
iD NC lenituneN ene sete sae ae conan seai| { 
On the Tanase over the Jore Mountains. 








15 Quanuse * 
16 ‘Tellowe 
17 | Tellico... 
18  Chatuga 
19 | Hiwasse 
20 Chewas 
21 Nuanba 
22 | Yallase ---.-.-. 
Inland towns on the branches of the Tanase and other wa- 
ters over the Jore Mountains. 

a 
oy 
i=} 
is} 
3 
27 Pataaaat os eee eam ae 
28 | Tamahle-- 
» Overhill towns on the Tanase or Cherokee River. 
31 | Nilaque -- 
32) Niowe - 
CEG SHC eee ean he OP ae eee ae Reo 
34 | Keowe.. ani 
Ee IBS 0 ECO ca ae 
WSROPUO) eau. os eeceee seis seco ene 
HERLOLO WG ce eetertnniae eee sheet 
Guinlnton aimee sserc tote toes 
(SU) Cw Be See eee 
Estotowe, great -.--..---..--..--. 
2A | AML SRS Eats eae 
42| Jore..... 4a22 
43 NSS OCHO). 52 2an eee e ene eee sn | 

Lower towns east of the mountains on the Savanna or 
Keowe River. 
Lower towns east of the mountains on Tugilo River 
Lower towns on Flint River. 
mo 
of 
» Towns on the waters of other rivers. 

Mouzon’s map of 1771 gives the names of several Lower Cherokee 
towns not already mentioned. Among these may be enumerated, on 
the Tugaleo River and its branches, Turruraw, Nayowee, Tetolhe, 
Chagee, Tussee, Chicherohe, Echay, and Takwashnaw; on the Keowee, 
New Keowee, and Quacoretcke; and on the Seneca, Acounee. 
In subsequent years, through frequent and long continued conflicts 
with the ever advancing white settlements and the successive treaties 
whereby the Cherokees gradually yielded portions of their domain, the 

1 Bartram’s Travels in North America from 1773 to 1778, p. 371. 
