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BackVolume 12:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3031 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 XII: 44 Winter, 1965 nal Fires or Lights. A famous wizard of the place had owned a gorgeous sabia or ulunsuti, a magic day- light stone. Skyagunsta later resided here. Dr. J. W. Daniel wrote me that his Indian name apparently meant Chosen Clear-sky Wizard. Dr. Frans Olbrechts of Belgium says that it meant Principal Man or Chief. I had held for Wizard-owl, atskili, which may have been euphemized to asgoya or `skoya, man. A war party had four chiefs: Raven Chief at front; Owl and Wolf Chiefs at flanks; Fox Chief at rear. The great owl was esteemed as a wizard. Skyagunsta was called the Wizard of Tamossee. Politely "chief" may mean "gentleman" or our "prince of a fellow." Even far back in Canada, Dr. Speck found travellers from the States designated as "Gentleman Chiefs." Tasalea, Torsee. Try Catawba tasi, dog; tasi or to(n)si surie wild dog or wolf. Perhaps Cherokeeized with an 1 instead of an r. A mere ice-breaker! Tricentee. Suspiciously Latinoid since so nearly like tricente-nary! Has a vowel dropped between t and r? Still the mongrel foundling appeals. Let's raise it! Tuckasegee. Seke, Catawba, red, modifying tuka perhaps. See Tucapau, etc. Ushery. Ysa, iswa, etc., plus heree. So river there or down there. Xoxi. Pronounced sho-shi. X in old Spanish equals sh. Another name for Sewee (Swanton). -A. L. PIc1u~Ns REFERENCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS W. P. Cuniming. The Southeast in Early Maps. 1958. See Maps 11 and 15 for John White's and Jacques Le Moyne's placing of Adusta, southwest XII: 45 of Port Royal Sound. See Maps 20, 22, and 24 with site apparently somewhat over into present Georgia. So goes 49. And 50 shows the Ogeechee as Howgeche. Cf. final a and o with modern masculine and feminine in Spanish Adusto, etc. White's added Maiom is not major mislettered but Mayon, an additional Indian settlement. F. W. Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, 1910. F. G. Speck, Incident in Montaignais Winter Life; Nat. History (N. Y.: 1926). His Catawba Texts also used. J. R. Swanton, Indians of the Southeastern United States, 1946. John Witthoft, Bird Lore of the Eastern Cherokee, Journal of Washington Academy of Sciences, 1946. Letters from the last two and from Drs. Fewkes and Olbrechts have been appreciated, also from Dr. J. W. Daniel, author of Maid of the Foothills. Permission to inspect and take extended notes from John White's drawings in the British Museum was a delightful privilege while in London. White may now be consulted in local libraries in reproduction. -A. L. PIc~Ns Calhoun County Plantations of St~ Matthew's Parish Near The Congaree.Santee River The broad rich lands along the west bank of the Congaree-Santee River in Amelia Township, later St. Matthew's Parish, during colonial days became one of the first plantation domains above the Charleston tidewater. George Sterling, who received a land grant in 1704, was the first to actually settle here.1 It was his daughter, Mary Sterling Heatly, whom Captain Charles Russell married. Captain Russell had been in the region since 1717 and had become a command- ing figure for the Provisional Government. He had early begun to acquire land in the Congaree-Santee country, and in 1781 increased his holdings consider- ably by buying George Sterling's plantation.2 This Russell marriage led to the alliance with the Thomson family since a daughter Eugenia Russell married Colonel William Thomson. William Thomson was a prominent soldier and planter of the region, having been commander of seven companies of Rangers dur- ing the Cherokee War and having also established himself as one of the leading citizens of Amelia Township. During the American Revolution Colonel Thomson proved himself to be a man of heroic mold when with 780 men he repulsed 2,000 Britishers under General Clinton who were attempting to cross Breach Inlet from Long Island (now Isle of Palms) to Sul- livan's Island. The Thomsons in succeeding genera- tions were among the largest land owners in the region. The Thomsons, Heatlys, and Russells of Amelia Township established quite a distinguished dynasty of landed gentry which was to include such families as: Heatly, Thomson, Russell, Sabb, Hrabow- ski, Haskell, Dulles, Hart, Theus, Raoul, Goodwyn, Darby, Sinkler, Taylor, Howell, Cheves, Taber, Peter- kin, Trezevant, Hane, and Reid. These families and others established a little kingdom of plantations which flourished up to the Confederate War. Theirs was a country of fine houses, fertile land, and fine people, who maintained a gracious kind of living even if they were a hundred miles north of Charleston. 224 |
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