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Database
Tamassee
Other names:
General Pickens Monument, Tomassy, Tomassee
What:
*Col. Andrew Williamson vs. Lower Town Cherokee, burned, 12 Aug 1776
Where: 34.88092512 -83.0587617 Tamassee
Maps: [map notes]
Sources:
- Margaret Mills Seaborn,
From 1730 through 1776, Cherokee Indian Towns of Oconee County, South Carolina, with Principal Paths, 1774
Oconee County Library, 1975
Tamassee 83° 3.7', 34° 52.9' .. Gen Pickens' house built on mound
[Note: this is presumably NAD27. Seaborn's map places Tamassee at the Pickens Monument location.]

- Cherokee Prayer Site Guide
Including atrocity sites, death camps, missions, towns, battlefields, spiritual sites, etc.
X 14. Tamasee, or Tomassee
8/10/1776- Near this town, Williamson's men ambushed in a "Ring Fight." Counter-attack led by Andrew Pickens. 16 Cherokees killed, 17 wounded, or 83 dead or wounded.
8/12/1776- Williamson's men destroyed town
- NBBAS:One p.161.
Ring Fight: Revlist post
- RevWar75
- Aug 1776 listing 8/12/1776 Tamassy (Tamasee, Cheowee, Eustaste) American victory. Per O'Kelley.
Related locations:
Ring Fight,
Confidence level:: See above.
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