Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...largest group descended from Coosa. Like the Tulsa, these people referred to themselves in busk speeches asKos-istagi, "Coosapeople." Thename, which signifies "point between rivers," nowhere appears in the De Soto narratives, but is in evidence very early in the maps and documents of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. On the Lam-hatty map it is given in the form "Oufusky," apparently as far east as the east bank of Flint River.3 Not much reliance can be placed on the geography of this map, though it is not unlikely that Lamhatty was attempting to place the eastern Okfuskee settlements on the upper Chattahoochee River. On the De Crenay map of 1733 two Okfuskee towns appear--one, "Oefasquets," between the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers well down toward the point where they come together; the other, "Les grands Oefasque," a considerable distance up the Tallapoosa.3 They occur again in the Spanish census of 1738, in which the latter is called "Oefasque Talajase," showing it to have been the original town.4 The same pair are repeated in the census of 1750.6 The former appears in the list of 1760 as "Akfeechkoutchis" (i. e., Little Okfuskee); the latter as "Akfaches" (i.e., the Okfuskee proper)." This last is "the great Okwhuske town" which Adair mentions and locates on the west bank of Tallapoosa River. He calls the Tallapoosa River after it.7 In 1754"the French of Fort Toulouse almost persuaded the Okfuskee Creeks to cut off those English traders who were among them, but they were prevented by the opposition of a young chief.8 In 1760 such a massacre did take place at Okfuskee and its branch town, Sukaispoga, as also at Okchai and Kealedji." The name of Okfuskee appears in the list of 1761, and in the lists of Bartram, Swan, ...
