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renames "Assumpcion del Puerto" San Luis. At the same time he 

 enumerates no less than three Yamasee missions on the Atlantic coast. 

 One of these, on the "Isla de Mocama," evidently Cumberland Island, 

 served two native villages, the first called Mocama "containing sixty 

 persons, all Yamasee infidels," and the second "Ocotoque [there was a 

 Lower Yamasee town named Oketee] , a league away, has about forty 

 persons, all infidels," and we may safely assume them to have been 

 Yamasee also. The next mission, 2 leagues from Mocama, was called 

 Tama and also consisted of "infidels." It was probably on the same 

 island, but the third mission, Santa Maria, may have been on Amelia 

 Island. At this period Santa Maria was occupied by "infidels," again 

 probably Yamasee. In 1680 but one mission is entered on Cumberland 

 Island, San Felipe de Athuluteca, but the tribe of Indians served by 

 it is not indicated. However, it is evident that many of the Yamasee 

 had moved nearer St. Augustine and occupied some stations formerly 

 assigned to other Indians. Two in the Fresh Water province, San 

 Salvador de Maiaca, and San Antonio de Anacape, are called "new 

 conversions." That Yamasee were settled in the second of these is 

 specifically stated. At the same time Nombre de Dios, a former 

 Timucua mission close to St. Augustine, now appearing as "Nombre 

 de Dios de Amacarisse," was also settled by Yamasee. In the winter 

 of 1684-85 the Yamasee Indians became offended at some act of the 

 Florida governor and withdrew to the frontiers of South Carolina, 

 where the English gave them lands on the west side of Savannah River 

 near its mouth. A town called "Amercario" makes its appearance on 

 Savannah River and probably contained the population of the former 

 Amacarisse mission, the name of which appears sometimes as Macaris- 

 qui and Mascarasi. It is believed that this contains the origin of the 

 name Yamacraw. South Carolina documents inform us that the 

 Yamasee at this time were divided into two sections of ^yq towns each 

 called Upper and Lower Yamasee and headed by Pocotaligo and 

 Altamaha respectively (Pocotaligo, Huspaw, Yoa, Sadkeche, Tomat- 

 ly; Altamaha, Pocasabo, Chasee, Oketee, and "probably" Tulafina). 

 The former may have included the Indians of Amacarisse, the latter 

 the Tama proper. In 1703 a tribe called Yoa added itself to them. 

 The Yamasee furnished 87 warriors to the native contingent with 

 which Barnwell attacked the Tuscarora in 1711, and proved the most 

 reliable of his auxiliaries. In 1715, however, smarting under various 

 outrages committed by white traders and fearing that the census taken 

 that year meant that they were to be enslaved, the Yamasee headed an 

 insurrection against the English colonists. They were quickly de- 

 feated by a force under Governor Craven and fled to Florida, where 

 they were received joyfully by the people of St. Augustine and settled 



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