Pohoy
Sign in to savePohoy was a chiefdom on the shores of Tampa Bay in present-day Florida in the late sixteenth century and all of the seventeenth century. Following slave-taking raids by people from the Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederacy (called Uchise by the Spanish and "Lower Creeks" by the English) at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the surviving Pohoy people lived in several locations in peninsular Florida. The Pohoy disappeared from historical accounts after 1739.
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- Alternate names
- Sixteenth century
- Seventeenth century
- Alafay people
- Eighteenth century
- See also
- Notes
- References
Pohoy was a chiefdom on the shores of Tampa Bay in present-day Florida in the late sixteenth century and all of the seventeenth century. Following slave-taking raids by people from the Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederacy (called Uchise by the Spanish and "Lower Creeks" by the English) at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the surviving Pohoy people lived in several locations in peninsular Florida. The Pohoy disappeared from historical accounts after 1739.
==Alternate names== The Spanish variously recorded the name of the chiefdom and people as Pohoy, Pojoy, Pojoi, Pooy, Posoy, and Pujoy. Jerald Milanich states that the name "Pohoy" is a form of Capaloey, the name of a chiefdom on Tampa Bay in the first half of the sixteenth century..