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stood, on the right bank of the Allegheny River below the mouth of 

 the Kiskiminetas or Conemaugh. In April 1745, in consequence of 

 a reprimand given him by Governor Gordon of Pennsylvania, he 

 instigated 400 Shawnee to leave the government of Pennsylvania. 

 A French document represents them as having come down from 

 Sandusky, moved to a spot high up the Wabash, and then descended 

 to the junction of the Wabash and Ohio, where they lived 2 years 

 and then passed on to the Abihka country. But this statement, in 

 a letter written by Governor Vaudreuil of Louisiana, June 24, 1750, 

 seems to be based on misinformation, since actually Chartier ap- 

 pears to have descended the Ohio, capturing some English traders 

 on the way, and to have penetrated Kentucky to a site in the 

 present Clark County, on Lulbegrud Creek, where the Shawnee 

 formed a town, which came to be known as Eskippakithiki. There 

 they stayed until 1747, when they went down to the Tennessee in 

 canoes and up the latter to Bear Creek. Ascending this stream 

 for 30 miles and leaving their canoes there, they made an attack 

 upon the Chickasaw, who vigorously repulsed them, and they set- 

 tled in the Talladega country. In 1748 another letter by Governor 

 Vaudreuil states that some English traders among the Creeks had 

 endeavored to induce these Shawnee to assist in an attack upon 

 Fort Toulouse, but they refused and wished to join the Shawnee 

 on Tallapoosa River. It seems, however, that this intention was 

 not carried out for they were still in the Talladega country in 1758, 

 their settlement being at "Chatakague," which we know as Syla- 

 cauga or "Buzzard Roost." A French enumeration made in 1750 

 also mentions them, and some maps give the name of a second Shaw- 

 nee town as Cayomulgi, signifying in the Creek language "Mul- 

 berry Place." Although, as stated, this band seems originally to 

 have been Piqua, it is possible that it may have been the one later 

 called Kispokotha and may have derived its name from the town 

 of Eskippakithiki. At any rate there is evidence of a former 

 close association between the Kispokotha and the Tukabahchee 

 Creeks. The busk, or ceremonial name of Tukabahchee, was 

 Ispokogi, or Spokogi, derived traditionally from certain super- 

 natural beings who had descended from the heavens bearing the 

 famous Tukabahchee plates, and according to one version these 

 were entrusted first to the Shawnee. It is also of some significance 

 that Tecumseh belonged to the Kispokotha but rather remarkable 

 that the Tukabahchee were one of the towns which refused to ally 

 themselves with him, retiring to the Lower Creeks to live with their 

 friends the Coweta. I do not find any reference to the time when 

 the Talladega Shawnee left the Creek Nation. It may have been 

 after the treaty of 1763. 



