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557:, the Muscogee towns (the "Upper Creeks") supported the British, while the Hitchiti- and Mikasuki-speaking towns, and other non-Muscogean-speaking groups (the "Lower Creeks") mostly gravitated to the emerging United States and to Spain. One exception was the Alachua Seminoles under Ahaya, by then the largest "Seminole" village in Florida, who remained loyal to the British. Ahaya always responded when called on by Governor Tonyn to help repel rebel invasions from Georgia, which were often led by the same Jonathan Bryan who had tried to grab the Alachua Seminole's land. 36: 533:
terms." In 1767, two British traders were killed when they tried to interfere with Seminoles who were stealing cattle. The British called a conference to deal with the killings. The British wanted to maintain good relations with the Seminoles. Philoke, from Ahaya's town of Cuscowilla, who was the father of two of the Seminoles involved in the killing, was given a great medal by the British.
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Paynes Prairie, or the Alachua Savanna, as William Bartram called it, is subject to periodic flooding, most famously in the period from 1871 or 1873 until 1891, when it was known as Alachua Lake and steamboats traversed it. Andersen states that the prairie flooded shortly after the Oconee founded the
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of Florida issued an arrest warrant for him. The British felt it necessary to ask Ahaya and other chiefs in Florida if they intended to go to war over the issue. Bryan backed down, saying that he had not purchased a large amount of land, but had merely leased grazing rights to a small area. According
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of Georgia hatched a scheme to acquire a large area of land in Florida. Bryan persuaded chiefs of the Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederation to cede lands in Florida, including the area around the Alachua Savanna, to him. Ahaya was shocked when the bold man traveled as far south as Payne's Prairie
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In late December 1765, Ahaya traveled to St. Augustine with 60 of his people, and stayed there for eight days. Ahaya received a great medal and other gifts and provisions from the British. Governor Grant was impressed with Ahaya's intelligence, and reported that he and Ahaya had "parted on the best
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people and the collapse of the Spanish mission network in Florida at the beginning of the 18th century, many peoples of what is now the state of Georgia, including the Oconees, used Florida as a vast hunting ground. Ahaya may have become familiar with the lands surrounding the Alachua Savanna (now
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The Oconee became unhappy living among the Lower Towns of the Creek Confederacy, perhaps because too many close, sometimes hostile, neighboring towns made it hard to find fresh agricultural land when it became necessary to relocate to new fields. About the year 1750, Ahaya led his people south to
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The British believed that the Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederation controlled the land and people of Florida. The Treaty of Picolata ceded 2,000,000 acres (810,000 ha) in Florida to the British. Cowkeeper was not present for the conference at Picolata, and Weoffke signed the treaty for
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The smell of decaying fish and swarms of mosquitoes drove the Alachua Seminoles to abandon their original town site, and move to a new town, called "Cuscowilla", a couple of miles from the Alachua Savanna. A town named "Lockway" was reported to be on the edge of a savanna (presumably the Alachua
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federation. (Boyd and Harris remark that whites were unable to consistently and accurately render Native American names in writing.) Porter further cites mentions of Seepeycoffee in connection with Brim and his successors. Seepeycoffee was the guardian of Brim's grandson (Seepeycoffee's nephew)
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Bartram reported that Ahaya was waited on by Yamasee slaves. The Yamasee slaves at Cuscowilla spoke Spanish and wore Spanish-style crucifixes, indicating that they may have been previously resident at a Spanish mission village. According to Bartram, the Yamasee slaves were fairly well treated.
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Florida, intending to settle somewhere near the Atlantic coast. The Oconee's migration reached the country around the Alachua Savanna, or Paynes Prairie, where they stopped. The area around Paynes Prairie is part of the Middle Florida Hammock Belt, a series of mixed hardwood and pine
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Cuscowilla. Ahaya reportedly missed the conference because of family illness, but he may have been separating himself from the Muscogee Confederation. The British gave medals, two great and four small, to some of the chiefs at the conference, in proportion to their importance.
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Some sources state that the Oconees moved to Florida under a chief named "Secoffee", and that it was Secoffee who was called "Cowkeeper". Kenneth Porter argues that Cowkeeper and Secoffee were different people, and finds "nothing to support the claim and much to disprove it".
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which had been abandoned early in the 18th century. The herds the Oconee gathered from those feral cattle led the British to call Ahaya "Cowkeeper." The Oconee established a town, called "Alachua", "Latchaway" or "Latchewie", on the edge of the savanna or prairie.
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people moved to Florida and settled in the vicinity of St. Augustine. The Spanish government tried to entice peoples from the Lower Towns of the Creek Confederacy to move to unoccupied lands in Florida, but were unable to supply enough gifts to satisfy them. The
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about Secoffee leading the Oconees to Florida, and concludes that "Cowkeeper" was Secoffee's nickname. Porter characterizes the story of Secoffee leading the Alachua Seminoles as, "according to Sprague, as paraphrased by Brinton who is then quoted by
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have no "r" sound, replacing it with "l"). The British wrote the name as "Semallone", later "Seminole". The use of "cimallon" by bands in Florida to describe themselves may have been intended to distinguish themselves from the primarily
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Tugulki, who became chief of Coweta in 1755 or 1756. Seepeycoffee accompanied Tugulki to meetings with British and Spanish officials into the 1770s. Porter traces the mistaken identification to John T. Sprague's 1848 book,
564:, Ahaya asked the British to take him with them. He also told the British that he would kill any Spaniard that entered his territory. After Ahaya's death in 1784, relations between the Seminoles and the Spanish improved. 492:
and expressed his hatred both for the Spanish and for any Indian tribes allied with them. He explained that he had had a vision that he would not find peace in the afterlife unless he killed 100 Spaniards.
484:). Ahaya and his band fought the Yamasees and remnants of the Timucua, who were allied with the Spanish. A Seminole tradition held that the Seminoles had killed most of the Yamasee men in a battle near the 245:, gives Cowkeeper's Oconee name as "Ahaya". ("Ahaya" is a rare Seminole name.) Boyd and Harris also state that the leader of the Alachua Seminoles was known to the English as "Ahaya" or "Cowkeeper". 456:
The new town of Alachua soon was one of the three largest established in Florida by people from the Muscogee Confederation. The Oconees in Alachua were joined by Hitchiti-speakers from the towns of
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of the Lower Towns found the gifts and trade goods of the British to be much more desirable than those of the Spanish, and many continued to join the British in raids into Spanish Florida.
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or "the flower hunter," and gave him free rein to explore his lands. Ahaya's people served Bartram a sweet "thin drink", and a jelly made from the roots of a local
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town of Alachua, and that when the lake drained some years later, it left many fish stranded, creating the conditions that led the people of Alachua to move.
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and married their women. The Alachua Seminoles still owned many Yamasee slaves when Bartram visited them in 1773. In 1757, Ahaya visited the Governor of the
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house in the middle of the square. Several hundred people lived in the town, with others in outlying villages. Each house had a garden, growing
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While the name "Seminole" was commonly applied by whites to all Native Americans in Florida, even as late as 1842, at the end of the
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was located on a bluff overlooking a sinkhole, now called the "Alachua Sink", that drains Paynes Prairie. There is evidence that the
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Hann, John H. (1992). "Heathen Acuera, Murder, and a Potano Cimarrona: The St. Johns River and the Alachua Prairie in the 1670s".
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William Bartram visited the site of Oconee Old Town in 1777, and stated that the town had been abandoned about 50 years earlier.
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traveled to Cuscowilla in the company of traders who had established a store there. Ahaya welcomed Bartam, called him
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to the Indian Superintendent John Stuart, Ahaya was no longer connected with the Muscogee Confederation by 1774.
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with the best soils in central Florida. The Oconee found abundant game and fish in the area, as well as many
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to refer to christianized natives who had left their mission villages to live "wild" in the woods.
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Gold, Robert L. (1965). "The East Florida Indians under Spanish and English Control: 1763-1765".
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Porter, Kenneth W. (1949). "The Founder of the "Seminole Nation" Secoffee or Cowkeeper".
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Boyd, Mark F.; Harris, Joseph W. (1951). "The Seminole War: Its Background and Onset".
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to carve his name into a red oak tree, but his allies quickly intervened. Governor
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Covington, James W. (1968). "Migration of the Seminoles into Florida, 1700-1820".
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Monaco, Chris (2000). "Fort Mitchell and the Settlement of the Alachua Country".
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The chief of the Alachua band of Seminoles was usually called "Cowkeeper" by the
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Porter, Charlotte M. (1992). "William Bartram's Travels in the Indian Nations".
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Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People
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In 1783, when the British ceded Florida back to Spain following defeat in the
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of Georgia informed the Lower Town Muscogee of Bryan's trickery, and Governor
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Porter identifies "Secoffee" as a variant spelling of "Seepeycoffee", son of
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Indian Superintendent of the Southern Department of British North America
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Savanna) in 1767. This may have been the original site of the town.
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In 1763, when Spain ceded Florida to the British following the
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The origin, progress, and conclusion of the Florida War.
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Early history of the Creek Indians and their neighbors,
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The name "Seminole" likely is derived from the Spanish
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Index

Cowkeeper

lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview
Seminole
King Payne
Payne
Bowlegs
Seminole
Seminole
Oconee people
Chattahoochee River
Payne's Prairie
American Revolutionary War
British
East Florida
William Bartram
John Richard Alden
hacienda de la Chua
Timucua
christianized
mission
Spanish Florida
Hitchiti
Mikasukee
Muskogean languages
Muskogee
Muscogee Confederacy
Second Seminole War

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