Several American newspapers circulated an item dated Charlestown (Charleston, South Carolina), 11 July 1764. From the item, Americans learned that the Indian leader Cowkeeper lived "at a town called Latchewee, which has about an hundred and twenty gunmen, is seventy miles from St. Augustine, and one hundred and eighty from the Creek country."
Consult, for instance, The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, August 6, 1764. The Creek settlement of Alachua was in the Gainesville area of north central Florida. British observers offered various renderings of Alachua, like Latchewee or Latchway. For access to the database Early American Imprints, please apply for membership, for a reasonable annual fee, at the Philadelphia Free Library.
Consult, for instance, The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, August 6, 1764. The Creek settlement of Alachua was in the Gainesville area of north central Florida. British observers offered various renderings of Alachua, like Latchewee or Latchway. For access to the database Early American Imprints, please apply for membership, for a reasonable annual fee, at the Philadelphia Free Library.
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