WAYNE COUNTY, GA - HISTORY  Doctortown

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"Miscellany of Wayne County"  Pg 34

Chief Alex - Doctortown "Alleck"


This creek which flows northward to the Altamaha
River at the upper end of the San Savilla Bluffs
directly north of Mount Pleasant, is named for a
Lower Creek Indian named Alleck (often called
Captain Aleck).  He lived near the mouth of the
Altamaha until the 1763 treaty between the Creeks
and the English.  His "old house" is shown on the
accompanying map, and when Winwood McIntosh
purchased land, she specified that it be that which
had belonged to him.  The accompanying map shows
this.


He moved to a spot further up the river after the
treaty and the site of his new home has since been
called Doctortown.  Doctor is the translated version
of the Creek word "Alleck."  Other places along the
Altamaha are also believed name for him; one being
Alec's Creek which empties into the Altamaha at
Williamsburg on Upper San Savilla Bluff.


Outwardly friendly to the whites, Chief Alleck
helped Governors John Reynolds, Henry Ellis and
James Wright, especially the latter whom he assisted
in negotiating boundary line matters with the
Creeks.  "But Alleck was no
Tomochichi....substantial evidences to show he was a
self-serving, devious fellow," according to John H.
Goff in his "Short Studies of Georgia Place Names."