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fact that it is the only one belonging to the Catawba group of Siouans 

 besides the Catawba itself, of which a vocabulary has been preserved. 

 Woccon population, — The two villages mentioned by Lawson 

 (1709) are said to have contained 120 warriors. Mooney estimates a 

 population of 600 in 1600. 



YADKIN 



A tribe on the river of the same name, which first appears in history 

 in a letter by the Indian trader, Abraham Wood, narrating the ad- 

 ventures of two men, James Needham and Gabriel Arthur, whom 

 he had sent on an exploring expedition to the west. They passed 

 through this tribe and town, which they called "Yattken," in the 

 summer of 1674. Lawson (1709) gives the name as Keatkin, but 

 applies it to the river, and there is no later mention of the people. 

 They may have been identical with the Cheraw, Keyauwee, or some 

 other Siouan tribe which appears later under another name. 



Yadkin population. — Unknown. 



YAMASEE 



One of the provinces named by Francisco of Chicora as existing in 

 1521 on or near the present South Carolina coast bears the name 

 "Yamiscaron" and is perhaps the first historical reference to this 

 tribe. The "province of Altamaha" ("Altapaha" or "Altamaca") 

 visited by De Soto in 1540 and then located about the eastward bend 

 of the Ocmulgee, bears the name of a town afterward called the lead- 

 ing town of the Lower Yamasee, and we must suppose that the people 

 represented a part at least of that tribe. They were then in some 

 measure subordinate to the Hitchiti. This is the Tama province 

 visited by a Spanish soldier named Gaspar de Salas and two Francis- 

 can friars in 1597. Mention of them again appears in Spanish letters 

 dated 1633 and 1639. By 1675 some of them had settled in the Apala- 

 chee country and also near the Spanish missions on the coast of 

 Georgia. January 27, 1675, Bishop Calderon founded a mission in 

 the Apalachee country 1 league from San Luis (modern Tallahassee), 

 which he speaks of as "La Purificacion de Tama, called Yamases." 

 Another named Asumpcion del Puerto, founded by him on February 2 

 following, contained Indians of the "Amacanos" tribe which may also 

 have been Yamasee. Writing August 24, 1675, Governor Salazar gives 

 another list of missions. He fails to enumerate "La Purificacion de 

 Tama," but substitutes "San Luis de Candelaria, a new doctrin/i estab- 

 lished in 1675, about one and a half leagues from San Lorenzo [de 

 Vitachuco]. . . . [with Indians drawn] from Tama and from the 

 Yamassee county." We may infer from this that Calderon's founda- 

 tion was shortly moved farther east and given a new name. He 



