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Yamacraw Indians
This small tribe is
known only through its connection with the
young British colony of Savannah and the
protection which its chief, Tomochichi,
extended over it. This chief, from some
unknown reason, had separated from his
mother tribe of Apalatchúkla town, and went
to reside upon a river bluff four miles
above the site of Savannah city. He
subsequently visited England and its court
with Esquire Oglethorpe (in 1733), and died,
about ninety-seven years old, in 1739,
highly respected by his Indians and the
colonists. The Yamacraw Indians, who had
followed him to the Savannah River,
consisted mainly of disaffected Lower Creek
and of some
Yamassi Indians.
The Creeks cannot give
any account of the name Yamacraw, and the R,
which is a component sound of it, does not
occur in any of the Maskoki dialects nor in
Yuchi. Cf. Chas. C. Jones,
Historical Sketch
of Tomo-chi-chi, mico of the Yamacraws.
Albany, 1868, 8vo.
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Maskoki Family
Notes About Book:
Source: Gatschet, Albert S., A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians.
Pub.
D.G. Brinton, Philadelphia, 1884.
Notes about Online Publication: This manuscript has been ocr'd and heavily
edited. Many of the Native American words have been reproduced as clearly as
online publication will allow us, but not all are exactly the way they were in
the original work. The structure of this manuscript has been changed to allow
better online presentation.
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