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Page 23
... spring . Above , it is of great width , intersected with lakes , slashes , and crooked drains , and much infested with musketoes . The people who cultivate this swamp , never attempt to fence it , as the annual freshes , always in the ...
... spring . Above , it is of great width , intersected with lakes , slashes , and crooked drains , and much infested with musketoes . The people who cultivate this swamp , never attempt to fence it , as the annual freshes , always in the ...
Page 24
... springs are fine ; there is cane on the creeks , and recd on the branches . The surround- ing country is broken and gravelly . The land fit for cul- ture , is generally the margins of the crecks , or the waving slopes from the high ...
... springs are fine ; there is cane on the creeks , and recd on the branches . The surround- ing country is broken and gravelly . The land fit for cul- ture , is generally the margins of the crecks , or the waving slopes from the high ...
Page 28
... spring and branch , and within five hundred yards a small creek ; thence within half a mile , the land becomes level and spreads out on this side two miles , including the flats of Wol - lau - hat - che , a creek ten feet wide , which ...
... spring and branch , and within five hundred yards a small creek ; thence within half a mile , the land becomes level and spreads out on this side two miles , including the flats of Wol - lau - hat - che , a creek ten feet wide , which ...
Page 29
... spring , and near it a beautiful elevated situation for a set- tlement . The hills are bounded to the west by a small branch . Below this , the flat land spreads out for one mile . It is a quarter of a mile from the branch on this flat ...
... spring , and near it a beautiful elevated situation for a set- tlement . The hills are bounded to the west by a small branch . Below this , the flat land spreads out for one mile . It is a quarter of a mile from the branch on this flat ...
Page 34
... spring or summer . They have no fences ; they have huts in the fields to shelter the laborers in the summer season from rain , and for the guards set to watch the crops while they are growing . At this season some families move over and ...
... spring or summer . They have no fences ; they have huts in the fields to shelter the laborers in the summer season from rain , and for the guards set to watch the crops while they are growing . At this season some families move over and ...
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agent for Indian Alabama appointed BENJAMIN HAWKINS bluff bordering broken land cabin called cane cattle cattle and horses ceremony Chat-to-ho-che Che-au-hau Cherokees Chickasaws chiefs clay Coleraine confederacy Coosau corn Cowetuh cultivated Cussetuh death whoop Eu-fau-lau falls flat land Flint river Foosce-hat-che fork Fort Wilkinson four miles Georgia gravelly half a mile hat-che Haujo Hawkins hickory Hill-au-bee hills hogs and horses horses and hogs Indian affairs joins left bank left side limestone little creek margins Mic-co mounds nation negroes New-yau-cau oak and hickory Oc-fus-kee Oconee river peach trees pine barren pine forest pine land ponds post oak red oak reed reedy branches rich flats ridge right bank right side Savannah saw palmetto season settled settlements stiff stocks of cattle swamp Tal-e-see Tal-la-poo-sa Tallapoosa thence thluc-co three miles Took-au-bat-che town house traders treaty tribes Uchees village warriors Yamassees yards wide