Because of armed confrontations with Iroquois and Chickasaw , and suffering a smallpox epidemic, the band moved south to the Coosa River in 1748, in present-day Alabama. Edmond Atkin, The Appalachian Indian Frontier: Edmond Atkin Report and Plan Of 1755, Volume 374 of Bison Book S, Wilbur R. Jacobs, ed. U of Nebraska Press, 1967, p. 65 They founded the village of Chalakagay . European Americans later developed Sylacauga, Alabama near there .Jerry E. Clark, The Shawnee, University Press of Kentucky, 1977. Ian K. Steele, Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, Vol. 71 of McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2013. Black Hoof (1740–1831), was then a child  with this band , and recalled the journey in later years when he was a chief. In May 1749 Antoine Louis Rouillé, the French Foreign minister, wrote about the migration : "[Chartier's] band, after ascending a part of the river of the Cherakis Cherokee , decided to go and join the Alibamons, where it appeared to have behaved well."Thwaites, Reuben Gold. The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest, Vol I 1634-1760. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908
Fighting with with Iroquois and Chickasaw and an outbreak of smallpox led them to move south to the Coosa River in 1748, Edmond Atkin, The Appalachian Indian Frontier: Edmond Atkin Report and Plan Of 1755, Volume 374 of Bison Book S, Wilbur R. Jacobs, ed. U of Nebraska Press, 1967, p. 65 where they founded the village of Chalakagay , near what is now Sylacauga, Alabama .Jerry E. Clark, The Shawnee, University Press of Kentucky, 1977. Ian K. Steele, Setting All the Captives Free: Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country, Vol. 71 of McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series; McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2013. Black Hoof (1740–1831), then a child , was with this band and recalled the journey in later years when he was a chief. In May 1749 Antoine Louis Rouillé, the French Foreign minister, wrote : "[Chartier's] band, after ascending a part of the river of the Cherakis , decided to go and join the Alibamons, where it appeared to have behaved well."Thwaites, Reuben Gold. The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest, Vol I 1634-1760. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908
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