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They were taken on the beginning of October at the Uchee town, and brought back to Savannah, tried and found guilty, condemned and executed on the 11th of November, having previously confessed their crime. Since my account of the traitorous plot was written, as also of the attempt at assassination, I have received from my friend Dr.
The people of the East salute the Uchee Seminoles." The Indian answered briefly and with dignity, then stood impassive, not noticing Hamil. "Mr. Hamil," she said, "this is my old friend Coacochee or Little Tiger; an Okichobi Seminole of the Clan of the Wind; a brave hunter and an upright man."
XVIII. Scout-boat and Channels, XIX. Uchee Indians, XX. A mutiny in the Camp, and attempt at assassination, XXI. Memoir of Tomo-Chichi, XXII. General Oglethorpe's manifesto, XXIII. Fate of Colonel Palmer, XXIV. Account of the siege of St. Augustine, XXV. Spanish invasion, XXVI. Order for a Thanksgiving,
It was often conferred upon the chief dignitaries of the whites in writing to them. Hawkins, 37. Bartram, 386. The Uchee town contained at least 1,500 people. Do. Hawkins, 30. Hawkins 39; Adair, 408. Bartram, 184. Milfort, 212. Hawkins, 67. Milfort, 203. Bartram, 386. Adair, 418. Hawkins and Adair, passim. Do. Also vide Bartram. Hawkins, 29, 70. Adair, 428.
The General then published his manifesto, and immediately hastened back to Georgia to prepare his forces for the Expedition. On the beginning of April he went to the Uchee town to engage runners to his Indian allies to inform them of his intended assault of St.
At the Uchee town, twenty-five miles above Ebenezer, he quitted water-conveyance, having appointed several of the Indian traders to wait his coming there, with a number of horses, as well for sumpter as riding, and also some rangers to assist." On this journey, computed to be over three hundred miles, both he and his attendants met with many and great hardships and fatigue.
The gentlemen were also directed to render him the thanks of General Oglethorpe for his civilities, and to express his inclination for maintaining a good harmony between the subjects of both crowns." On the 22d of May, 1736, a respectable deputation of the Uchee Indians, from the neighborhood of Ebenezer, waited upon the General at St. Simons.
The Uchee Indians had a village not far from Ebenezer, at the time of the settlement of Georgia; but their principal town was at Chota, on the western branch of the Chattahoochee, or, as it was more properly spelt, Chota-Uchee river. How long they had resided there we do not know. As their language is a dialect of the Shawanees, it has been supposed that they were descendants from that tribe.
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