The Yamacraw tribe was formed in the late 1720s by leader
Tomochichi from some bands of
Yamasee and
Lower Creek people who had disagreed with the severing of friendship with the British during the
Yamasee War of 1715. By 1728 the Yamacraw had settled along the Savannah River near its mouth. This was later developed as the present-day city of Savannah. In 1733
James Oglethorpe, interested in founding a colony at the site because of its strategic location on the water, negotiated with Tomochichi and the Yamacraw agreed to move their village upriver. A mid-19th century history of
Tomochichi noted dissension over the status of this name and people. Charles Colcock Jones wrote that the Creek did not acknowledge any people known as the Yamacraw. Also he said that neither the
Maskoki (Muskogee) nor
Yuchi dialects of the region used the "r" in such a way as in that name. ==References==