4. _Keowee Towns._--Keowee, Tricentee, Echoee, Torsee, Cowee, Torsalla,
Coweeshee, and Elejoy.
5. _Out Towns._--Tucharechee, Kittowa, Conontoroy, Steecoy, Oustanale,
and Tuckasegee.
6. _Lower Towns._--Tomassee, Oustestee, Cheowie, Estatoie, Tosawa,
Keowee, and Oustanalle.
About twenty years later, Bartram,[12] who traversed the country, gives
the names of forty-three Cherokee towns and villages then existing and
inhabited as follows:
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No. | Name. | Where situated.
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1 | Echoe | }
2 | Nucasse | } On the Tanase east of
3 | Whatoga | } Jore Mountains.
4 | Cowe | }
| |
5 | Ticoloosa | }
6 | Jore | } Inland, on the branches
7 | Conisca | } of the Tanase.
8 | Nowe | }
| |
9 | Tomothle | }
10 | Noewe | }
11 | Tellico | }
12 | Clennuse | } On the Tanase over the Jore
13 | Occunolufte | } Mountains.
14 | Chewe | }
15 | Quanuse | }
16 | Tellowe | }
| |
17 | Tellico | }
18 | Chatuga | } Inland towns on the branches of
19 | Hiwasse | } the Tanase and other waters over
20 | Chewase | } the Jore Mountains.
21 | Nuanba | }
| |
22 | Tallase | }
23 | Chelowe | }
24 | Sette | }
25 | Chote, great | }
26 | Joco | } Overhill towns on the Tanase or
27 | Tahasse | } Cherokee River.
28 | Tamahle | }
29 | Tuskege | }
30 | -- -- Big Island | }
31 | Nilaque | }
32 | Niowe | }
| |
33 | Sinica | } Lower towns east of the mountains on
34 | Keowe | } the Savanna or Keowe River.
35 | Kulsage | }
| |
36 | Tugilo | } Lower towns east of the mountains
37 | Estotowe | } on Tugilo River.
| |
38 | Qualatche | } Lower towns on Flint River.
39 | Chote | }
| |
40 | Estotewe, great | }
41 | Allagae | } Towns on waters of other rivers.
42 | Jore | }
43 | Naeoche | }
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Mouzon's map of 1771 gives the names of several Lower Cherokee towns
not already mentioned. Among these may be enumerated, on the Tugalco
River and its branches, Turruraw, Nayowee, Tetohe, Chagee, Tussee,
Chicherohe, Echay, and Takwashnaw; on the Keowee, New Keowee, and
Quacoretche; and on the Seneca, Acounee.
In subsequent years, through frequent and long continued conflicts
with the ever advancing white settlements and the successive treaties
whereby the Cherokees gradually yielded portions of their domain, the
location and names of their towns were continually changing until the
final removal of the nation west of the Mississippi.[13]