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==Return to Chattahoochee==
In 1715, the towns that had moved to central Georgia from Apalachicola Province joined with other Native American peoples living in what is now Georgia and South Carolina in war against the Btitish in South Carolina, in what is known as the [[Yamasee War]].{{Sfn|Hann|2006|pp=137–138}} The British quickly defeated the Native American attackers. Many Yamassee fled to Spanish Florida, settling near [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]]. The Ochese Creek towns moved west, with most of them returning to the Chattahoochee River.{{Sfn|Hann|2006|pp=141–142, 149–150}}, where they became known as the Lower Creeks{{Efn|name=Creek|The use of the term "Creek Indians", which includes Muscogees and other peoples, is often offensive to the descendants of those people.{{sfn|Foster|2007|p=xx}}}} or Lower Towns of the [[Muscogee#Rise of the Muscogee Confederacy|Muscogee Confederacy]]){{sfn|Hann|2006|p=102}} Oconee moved back to the Chattahoochee River that year, and was possibly located at archaeological sites 1RU20 and 1RU21 in Russell County, Alabama from 1715 into the 1750s.{{Sfn|Foster|2007|pp=65, 111}} As was the case in the 17th century, Oconee was located between Sabacola and Apalachicola, although the town of [[Hitchiti|Ayfitchiti]] separated Oconee from Apalachicola in 1738.{{Sfn|Hann|2006|p=181}}
[[Pedro de Olivera y Fullana]], governor of Spanish Florida, sent Diego Peña, a retired lieutenant from the garrison in St, Augustine, to the towns on the Chattahoochee River three times between 1716 and 1718; in 1717 with an invitation to the towns to move into the former [[Apalachee Province|Apalachee]] and [[Timucua Province|Timucua]] provinces of Spanish Florida. Several of the towns, including Oconee, agreed to move south (although Oconee stayed on the Chattahoochee).{{Sfn|Fairbanks|1978|p=165}} Starting in the 1720s, Oconee was a "point town", one of the Muscogee Confederation towns that usually sided with the British.{{Sfn|Hahn|2004|p=269}} Of 14 "Uchise" villages, only Ocone and two others remained anti-Spanish.{{Sfn|Hann|2006|p=188}} When the British were seeking an alternative to Malatchi Brim, successor of [[Emperor Brim]], as a representative of the Muscogee Confederation, they offered to appoint Wehoffkey of Oconee "to command the whole nation", but Wehoffkey turned them down.{{Sfn|Hahn|2004|p=208}}
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