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in villages nearby along with other Indians. In 1726 four Yamasee 

 missions were reported in Florida with a fifth in the Apalachee coun- 

 try occupied jointly with Apalachee Indians. Three missions were 

 occupied by Ybaha (Guale Indians). In 1728 one Yamasee mission 

 was reported and another was occupied jointly with the Ybaha. Two 

 towns were occupied entirely by Ybaha. There is also mention of a 

 town called San Antonio de la Tama consisting of 23 persons who, we 

 are told, had come from South Carolina. It was destroyed by the 

 Creeks in 1725, and the Indians moved to another mission called 

 Mose. As Nombre de Dios is called also "Macariz" it may have con- 

 tained Indians of that band. In 1725 and 1728 these villages were 

 raided by the English and their allies and in the latter year those 

 around St. Augustine were reduced to one by order of the Spanish 

 governor. The greater part of the Yamasee who remained in this 

 part of Florida seem to have retired to the Oklawaha River and finally 

 to have become incorporated into the Seminole Nations. Part of the 

 Yamasee, as we have seen, went to the old Apalachee country from 

 South Carolina and later on we hear of Yamasee bands near Pensacola 

 and Mobile and along the Upper Creeks. This last was very likely 

 composed of those who had been living near the two places mentioned. 

 Probably, too, they were the "Emusas" enumerated by Captain Young 

 among the Lower Creek and Seminole bands on the Chattahoochee 

 River, where Omusee Creek perhaps preserves the name. A list of 

 Seminole towns made in 1823 shows that these Yamasee had then 

 moved to Florida, where they were living at the head of the Sumulga 

 Hatchee River, 20 miles north of St. Marks. Part of these Creek 

 Yamasee may have constituted the Yamacraw band found by Ogle- 

 thorpe on the site of Savannah when he landed there in 1733 with the 

 first Georgia colonists. It is to be suspected that it originated from 

 the Amacarisse Yamasee which we suppose to have settled in the 

 Upper towns. Most of the Yamacraw Indians had come from the 

 Lower Creek towns about 1730 to the Savannah, and their chief, Tomo- 

 chichi, had tarried for some time with the Apalachicola. In 1734 

 Tomochichi, his wife, his nephew, and a few of his warriors visited 

 England and received much attention. (See pis. 29, 30.) He died 

 October 5, 1739. Later his people moved to a place called New Yama- 

 craw and finally retired to the Creek Nation. 



Yamasee population. — In 1675 Governor Salazar of Florida re- 

 turned a mission-by-mission estimate of the number of Indians under 

 his jurisdiction and among these the Yamasee, including the Tama, 

 accounted for 1,190. In 1708 the Yamasee, then living in South Caro- 

 lina, were estimated to have 500 men able to bear arms. The census 

 of 1715 returned 413 warriors and a total population of 1,215. After 

 they removed to Florida, it was reported that the chief of the Yamasee 



