Yamaseen.adj.

1699 J. Dickinson Gods Protecting Provid. 84 The Carolina-Indians, called the Yammasees,..[were] Trading for Deer-Skins.

1708 Boston News-let. 24 May 2/2 A Nation of Indians call'd the Yamesees that live to the Southward, who are utter Enemies to the Spaniards.

1733 S.-Carolina Gaz. 26 May 3/2 We must pray you to recal the Yamasees, that they may be buried in Peace amongst their Ancestors, and that [etc.].

1741 South Carolina Hist. Soc. Coll. (1887) IV. 14 The Yemassee Indians..had lived in amity with the Government at St. Augustine.

1744 F. Moore Voy. Georgia 42 The Indians..rowed..by taking a short and long Stroke alternately, which they called the Yamassee Stroke.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 225 I shall mention the national names of those, who make up this mixed language;..—the..Eenó, Charàh, Wah now Chowan, Canggaree, Nachee, Yamasee, Coosah, &c.

1871 G. R. Fairbanks Hist. Florida 179 It was perhaps at this period that Capt. T. Nairn, of South Carolina, with a party of Yemassee Indians, penetrated to the headwaters of the St. John's.

1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 335/1 The crisis of Indian attacks in the Yamasee War (1715) resulted in its [sc. South Carolina's] reversion to crown rule in 1729.

1989 G. C. Anderson in C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 341/1 The Virginia tribes, often called Powhatan's Confederacy, the Tuscarora, Catawba, Yamassee, Westos, and..in Florida, the Timucua.

1973 H. Landar in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics X. ii. 1396 The term Seminole refers to Creeks in Florida from 1750. Of these perhaps two-thirds spoke Muskogee and one-third Hitchiti, Alabama or Yamasee.