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The Yamasee took refuge in Spanish Florida, the Ochese Creeks fled west to the Chattahoochee.
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Yamasee and took
In the later 17th century a group of Yamasee Indians under Chief Altamaha took up residence near the mouth of the Altamaha.
The Yamasee took refuge in Spanish Florida.
Although it took several years to accomplish, the Yamasee War led directly to South Carolina's overthrow of the Lords Proprietors.
Yamasee and refuge
By the time the Yamasee arrived, several hundred settlers had found refuge on the ship, while many others had fled in canoes.
Other Yamasee went south to find refuge in makeshift forts.
They found and attacked a group of about 200 Yamasee who had taken refuge in a palisade-fortified encampment.
Yamasee and Spanish
In 1704 – 06, Carolina Governor Col. James Moore led colonial militia and Ochese Creek and Yamasee warriors in raids that destroyed the Spanish missions of the Florida interior ; they captured some 10, 000 unarmed ' mission Indians ,' the Timucua and Apalachee, and sold them into slavery.
In 1715, the Yamasee moved into Florida as allies of the Spanish, after conflicts with the English colonies.
Complaints that the proprietors had not done enough to protect the colonists against Indians in the Yamasee War, and against the attacks of the neighboring Spanish in Queen Anne's War, convinced many in South Carolina of the necessity of ending proprietary rule.
Throughout the Colonial Period, the Carolinas participated in many wars against the Spanish and the Native Americans, including the Yamasee and Cherokee tribes.
Throughout the Colonial Period, the Carolinas participated in numerous wars with the Spanish and the Native Americans, particularly the Yamasee, Apalachee, and Cherokee.
The Yamasee emerged during the 17th century in the contested frontier between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.
At first allied with the Spanish, the Yamasee moved north in the late 17th century and soon became South Carolina's most important Indian ally.
Nevertheless, the Creek formed closer ties to the French and Spanish during the Yamasee War.
The Yamasee of Spanish Florida were in time weakened by disease and other factors.
In 1570, Spanish explorers established missions in Yamasee territory.
Starting in 1675 the Yamasee were mentioned regularly on Spanish mission census records of the missionary provinces of Guale ( central Georgia coast ) and Mocama ( present-day southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida ).
The Yamasee usually did not convert to Christianity and remained somewhat separated from the Christian Indians of Spanish Florida.
Pirate attacks on the Spanish missions in 1680 forced the Yamasee to migrate again.
The Yamasee then migrated south to the area around St. Augustine and Pensacola, where they allied with the Spanish against the British.
Yamasee and Florida
With Florida depopulated, English traders paid other tribes to attack and enslave the Yamasee, leading to the Yamassee War of 1715 – 17.
All of the Florida tribes were also severely affected by the raids of Creeks and Yamasee during the late stages of the seventeenth century.
St. Augustine and Pensacola survived, but English-allied Indians such as the Yamasee conducted slave raids throughout Florida, killing or enslaving most of the region's natives.
South Carolina had never been able to gain control of the area, but after the Yamasee War the Georgia coast was effectively cleared of Native Americans, excepting a few villages of defeated Yamasee, who became known as the Yamacraw to distinguish them from the still-hostile Yamasee in Florida and among the Creek
After the outbreak of open war between Spain and England in 1702, slaving raids by Uchise Creek and Yamasee Indians allied with the English Province of Carolina began reaching far down the Florida peninsula.
The surviving Yamasee fled to Florida, leaving the coast of Georgia depopulated, making formation of a new British colony possible.
* Yamasee, Florida, Georgia
The Yamasee were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.
For years, the Yamasee and the Carolinian colonists conducted slave raids upon Spanish-allied Indians and attacked St. Augustine, Florida.
* a copy of a 1681 Florida missions census states that the people of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de la Tama speak " la lengua de Guale, y Yamassa " Guale and Yamasee language ;
Yamasee and Ochese
The Ochese Creeks joined the Yamasee, burning trade-posts and raiding back-country settlers, but the revolt ran low on gunpowder and was put down by Carolinian militia and their Cherokee allies.
Ca. 1750 a group of Ochese moved to the neutral zone, after clashing with the Muskogee-speaking towns of the Chattahoochee, where they had fled after the Yamasee War.
In 1702 South Carolina Governor Col. James Moore raised a militia of 50 colonists and 1, 000 Yamasee and Ochese Creek warriors.
They hoped to obtain Yamasee assistance in arranging an emergency summit with the Ochese Creek leaders.
The Ochese Indians had probably been instigators of the war at least as much as the Yamasee.
The reoccupation of the Chattahoochee River by the Ochese Creek, along with remnants of the Apalachicola, Apalachee, Yamasee, and others, seemed to Europeans to represent a new Indian identity, and needed a new name.
Yamasee and Creeks
Fearing they would come under French influence, the British reopened the deerskin trade with the Lower Creeks, antagonizing the Yamasee, now allies of Spain.
Yamasee and Chattahoochee
The Lower Towns, along the Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers, and further east along the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers, were Coweta, Cusseta ( Kasihta, Cofitachiqui ), Upper Chehaw ( Chiaha ), Hitchiti, Oconee, Ocmulgee, Okawaigi, Apalachee, Yamasee ( Altamaha ), Ocfuskee, Sawokli, and Tamali.
Yamasee and .
* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
* 1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.
It gave rise to a series of devastating wars among the tribes, including the Yamasee War.
* January 27 – The Tugaloo Massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War.
* The Province of Carolina goes to war with the Yamasee Native Americans.
Most went to Cuba, including the entire governmental records from St. Augustine, although some Christianized Yamasee were resettled to the coast of Mexico.
Cherokees fought with the Yamasee, Catawba, and British in late 1712 and early 1713 against the Tuscarora in the Second Tuscarora War.
In January 1716, Cherokee murdered a delegation of Muscogee Creek leaders at the town of Tugaloo, marking their entry into the Yamasee War.
The colony of Georgia was created in 1732 ; its first settlement, Savannah, was founded the following year, on a river bluff where the Yamacraw, a Yamasee band that remained allies of England, allowed John Musgrove to establish a fur-trading post.
Led by Chief Secoffee ( Cowkeeper ), they became the center of a new tribal confederacy, the Seminole, which grew to include earlier refugees from the Yamasee War, remnants of the ' mission Indians ,' and escaped African slaves.
By 1707, colonial soldiers from the Province of Carolina and their Yamasee Indian allies had killed or carried off nearly all the remaining native inhabitants, having conducted a series of raids extending the full length of the peninsula.
The Lower Towns included Coweta, Cusseta ( Kasihta, Cofitachequi ), Upper Chehaw ( Chiaha ), Hitchiti, Oconee, Ocmulgee, Okawaigi, Apalachee, Yamasee ( Altamaha ), Ocfuskee, Sawokli, and Tamali.
After the violent upheavals of the Yamasee War of 1715-1717, and the Tuscarora War of 1711-1715, families of Algonquian Waccamaw left South Carolina Colony in 1718.
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