Note 60 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

Variously spelled: Chota, Chote, Echota, Chotah, Choto, Chotee, Chateauke, Chotte, and as above. Probably the earliest English account is that of James Needham in Williams, Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 27, see also pp. 152, 263, 472, and, for the reverence for “the old beloved town,” 497. Timberlake, (1762) refers to it as the metropolis of the country, Memoirs, 58, 99, 117; Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee, passim. The beloved town was spared in the destruction of the Cherokee towns by Col. Wm. Christian, in 1776.