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and the Choctawhatchee. In the latter year or the year follow- 

 ing, they were driven out by northern Indians probably accompanied 

 by English. The greater part of them then sought refuge with the 

 French at Mobile though, from entrances on certain maps, it seems 

 possible that a small band remained in their old country a while 

 longer. Bienville placed his newcomers a league and a half below 

 the fort, the original Mobile post, and when new Mobile was founded 

 in 1710 located them 1 league above the Apalachee on Mobile River. 

 By 1715 they had left this place, because it was then given to the 

 Taensa, and they may have lived for a while, as Hamilton sug- 

 gests, on a creek now known as Toucha, which empties into Bayou 

 Sara some distance east of Cleveland's Station, but on the other 

 hand they may have gone immediately to the upper Alabama, where 

 they were established in 1717 when Fort Toulouse was built. In 1760 

 there were two bodies of Tawasa, one with the Fus-hatchee Indians 

 4 leagues from Fort Toulouse on Tallapoosa River, the other an 

 independent body 7 leagues from that post and perhaps on the site 

 which they occupied in Hawkins' time (1799), at or very close to 

 their ancient sixteenth-century town. From information furnished 

 by the native chronicler, George Stiggins, it appears that the 

 Autauga town, lower down the Alabama in Autauga County, be- 

 longed to the same tribe. About the end of the eighteenth century 

 the Alabama tribe divided and the Tawasa divided also, part remain- 

 ing in their old country and part moving to Louisiana, where they 

 followed the fortunes of the Alabama emigrants (q. v.). After the 

 Creek War of 1813-14, in which all of the Alabama took a conspicu- 

 ous part, they were compelled to move into the district between the 

 Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, and the prominence of Tawasa among 

 those who had remained with the Creeks seems to be shown by the 

 fact that Tawasa and Autauga are the only names of Alabama towns 

 which appear in the census rolls of 1832. The rest of their history, 

 however, is bound up in that of the Alabama as a whole. 



Tawasa population. — The estimates for this tribe cannot be clearly 

 separated from those of the Alabama. The French census of 1760, 

 however, returned 40 men, and the Georgia census of 1792 about 60. 

 If we were to suppose that only Tawasa lived in the towns called 

 Tawasa and Autauga in the census of 1832-33, we would be able to 

 give 321 as the Tawasa population at that time, but such an interpreta- 

 tion is of very doubtful validity. 



TEKESTA OR TEQUESTA 



A tribe found by the Spaniards early in the sixteenth century 

 living on the southeastern coast of Florida about on the site of the 



