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worm fence & built himself a comfortable house. They have but a few peach trees in & about the town. The main trading path, from the upper towns, passes through here. They estimate their number of gun men at 300 but they cannot exceed 180. - Au,put,tau,e a village of Cussetuh, 20 miles from the river, on Hat,che thluc,co. They have good fences & the settlers [[under?]] [[the?]] best characters of any among the Lower Creeks. They estimate their gun men at 43. On a visit here, the agent for Indian affairs was met by all the men at the house of Tus,se,ki,ah Micco. That chief addressed him in these words, "Here I am glad to see you. This is my wife & these are my children. They are glad to see you. These are the men | worm fence & built himself a comfortable house. They have but a few peach trees in & about the town. The main trading path, from the upper towns, passes through here. They estimate their number of gun men at 300 but they cannot exceed 180. - Au,put,tau,e a village of Cussetuh, 20 miles from the river, on Hat,che thluc,co. They have good fences & the settlers [[under?]] [[the?]] best characters of any among the Lower Creeks. They estimate their gun men at 43. On a visit here, the agent for Indian affairs was met by all the men at the house of Tus,se,ki,ah Micco. That chief addressed him in these words, "Here I am glad to see you. This is my wife & these are my children. They are glad to see you. These are the men of the village. We have 40 of them in all. They are glad to see you. Your are now among those on whom you may rely. I have been six years at this village and we have not a man here, or belonging to our village, who ever stole a horse from or did any injury to, a white man." The village is in the forks of Hatche thlucco, and the situation well chosen" the land is rich on the margins of the creeks and the cane flats - the timber large - poplar, white oak, & hickory - the uplands to the South are the longleaf pine & to the N. waving oak, pine & hickory; cane on the creeks & reed in all the branches. | ||
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worm fence & built himself a comfortable house. They have but a few peach trees in & about the town. The main trading path, from the upper towns, passes through here. They estimate their number of gun men at 300 but they cannot exceed 180. - Au,put,tau,e a village of Cussetuh, 20 miles from the river, on Hat,che thluc,co. They have good fences & the settlers under? the? best characters of any among the Lower Creeks. They estimate their gun men at 43. On a visit here, the agent for Indian affairs was met by all the men at the house of Tus,se,ki,ah Micco. That chief addressed him in these words, "Here I am glad to see you. This is my wife & these are my children. They are glad to see you. These are the men of the village. We have 40 of them in all. They are glad to see you. Your are now among those on whom you may rely. I have been six years at this village and we have not a man here, or belonging to our village, who ever stole a horse from or did any injury to, a white man." The village is in the forks of Hatche thlucco, and the situation well chosen" the land is rich on the margins of the creeks and the cane flats - the timber large - poplar, white oak, & hickory - the uplands to the South are the longleaf pine & to the N. waving oak, pine & hickory; cane on the creeks & reed in all the branches.