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while toward the end of the century Indians from the north, in- 

 stigated and sometimes accompanied by the English, destroyed and car- 

 ried away more and more of the population. This movement was 

 particularly accentuated after the destruction of the Apalachee in 

 1703-4, who had acted as a barrier. The remnants of the Timucua 

 settled in one or two villages near St. Augustine, where they con- 

 tinued until after 1736. The last of these seem to have removed 

 to the present Tomoka Kiver in Volusia County, where we lose sight 

 of them. The name of one town, however, Utina, may be continued 

 in that of a Seminole settlement, Etanie, which perhaps contained 

 some relics of the group. 



Timiccua population. — A Spanish document dated 1597 reports 

 that there were then more than 1,400-1,500 Christian Indians in 

 the Timucua territories included in the missions of Nombre de Dios 

 (Saturiwa), San Pedro (Tacatacuru), the Fresh Water District, and 

 San Antonio de Enacape (also of the Fresh Water District). In 

 1602, 792 Christians were reported under San Pedro, 500 under San 

 Juan del Puerto, and 200 in the Fresh Water District, besides which 

 100 were under instruction in this last, and 1,100 in the province 

 of leaf ui (under Tacatacuru) . The same manuscript states that there 

 was a total population of 700-800 in the province of Yui, 1,500 in 

 Utina or Timucua, and 1,000 in Potano. In 1606 the Bishop of Cuba 

 visited Florida and confirmed 2,074 Indians, and in 1608 it was 

 claimed that 5,000 Indians were converted or were being catechised. 

 The writer of a letter dated February 2, 1635, claims 30,000 Chris- 

 tianized Indians connected with the 44 missions, but this is plainly 

 an exaggeration. In 1675 Governor Salazar gives 1,400 in the Timu- 

 cua missions, but the same year Bishop Calderon of Cuba reports 

 that he administered the holy sacrament of confirmation to 13,152 

 Christianized Indians in the four provinces of "Guale, Timuqua, 

 Apalache, and Apalachocoli." Mooney made an estimate of 13,000 

 Timucua for the year 1650. In 1728 the town of Nombre de Dios, or 

 Chiquito, near St. Augustine, which seems to have contained most 

 of the remaining Timucua, had about 15 men and 20 women. In 

 1736 the number of men was reported as 17. 



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The earliest known home of this tribe was on Yazoo Kiver, where 

 they are placed by early cartographers above the Tunica, Yazoo, and 

 Koroa, but below the Ibitoupa. Tonti says they were 25 leagues 

 from the Mississippi. At a date not much earlier than 1682 part of 

 them, under pressure of the Chickasaw it is claimed, moved down 

 to the neighborhood of the Natchez. They appear to have settled 

 first on the west bank of the Mississippi near Fort Adams, some miles 



