Hitchiti

Hitchiti was a Native town whose people spoke a language shared with several neighbouring communities. Spanish records named it Ahachito among the towns of Apalachicola Province on the Chattahoochee River in 1675. Like other towns of the region, it maintained its own identity while taking part in a wider network of alliances, diplomacy and regional exchange.

Shortly after 1690, Hitchiti and other Chattahoochee towns moved east to the Ocmulgee River, known to English traders as Ochese Creek. There they formed part of a cluster of settlements trading with Carolina and its merchants. Following the Yamasee War in 1715, Hitchiti returned west to the Chattahoochee. Two of its leaders later joined other Lower Creek chiefs in meeting Georgia's founder James Oglethorpe at Savannah in 1733.