Tomochichi's Grave State Historical Marker

Located on Wright Square Opposite the Old Courthouse,

Savannah, Ga.

 

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TOMO-CHI-CHI'S GRAVE

 

Tomo-Chi-Chi, Mico of the Yamacraws, a tribe of the Creek

Indian Nation, is buried in this Square. He has been called a co-founder,

with Oglethorpe, of Georgia. He was a good friend to the English,

a friendship indispensable to the establishment of the Colony as a

military outpost against Spanish invasion. He negotiated with Ogle-

thorpe the treaty formally ratified on May 21, 1733, pursuant to

which Georgia was settled. Mary Musgrove, half-breed niece of

Emperor Brim of the Creek Indians, acted as interpreter between

Oglethorpe and Tomo-Chi-Chi and lent her great influence to the

signing of that treaty and to the treaties negotiated by Oglethorpe

with other tribes of the Creek nation.

 

In 1734, at the age of 84, with his wife Senauki, Tomo-Chi-Chi

visited the English Court and was received by the King and by the

Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a man of fine physique, tall and

of great dignity.

 

He died October 5, 1739 at Yamacraw Indian Village, and at his

request was brought to Savannah to rest among his English friends.

He was buried here with military honors.

 

025-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1952

 

 

Photo: Ed Jackson

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