Other Chacatos moved to missions in or closer to Apalachee Province, abandoning their villages west of the Apalachicola River.

Other Chacatos lived in small settlements scattered across the Florida panhandle, and in Tawasa and Tiquepache villages in Alabama.

In the 17th and earliest 18th centuries, when they lived in the eastern panhandle of Florida, the Spanish usually called the people "Chacato", and less often, "Chacta", "Chacto", "Chata", and "Chato".

[9] Swanton states that the language of the Chacato is "undoubtedly" a member of the southern division of the Muskogean stock.

[13] A map in Martin shows the Chacato occupying an area along the Gulf Coast of Florida between the Apalachicola and Choctawhatchee rivers.

Pottery found in the historic Chacato settlement area is more closely related to that of Apalachee Province than to that of the peoples of the Pensacola and Mobile bays.

[5][16] The Chacatos appear to be an exception to their neighbors in that inheritance of the chieftainship did not necessarily pass to the offspring of the previous chief's eldest sister.

The first mission, San Carlos Borromeo, was in the principal Chacato village of Achercatane (later listed as Yatcatane), four days journey northwest of Apalachee Province.

Hann suggests that the differences may be due to many of the people of the villages being on hunting or fishing trips at the time of the bishop's visit.

[25] The missionaries at the two missions claimed to have converted more than 300 Chacatos, including the chiefs of the settlements, to Christianity by late September.

The three reluctant warriors were nominally converted to Christianity and the Chiscas were expelled from the Chacato villages while the Spanish-Apalachee party was there.

One of the conspirators, Juan Fernández de Diocsale, was the son of a Chisca woman and had been chief of the village where San Carlos was located.

Hann notes that this may partly be because of discontent over pressure on the Chacato from the missionaries to strictly adhere to Christian standards.

Pérez sent 11 gunmen after the earlier party with orders to bring Barreda and Fray Juan Ocon, the missionary at Sabacola, back to San Luis.

At the first inquiry, the Spanish honored the promise to spare the lives of the conspirators, but Diocsale and two others were taken to San Luis for further trial.

Diocsale was exiled from San Carlos for life and held in house-arrest in St. Augustine while the other two were sentenced to four years of labor for the colonial government.

[37] In an inquiry in 1676 into recent attacks on missions, Diocsale finally admitted to inciting the Chiscas to make war on Christians, and was sentenced to exile in Mexico.

[38] In that inquiry, Miguel, chief of San Nicolás, had been accused of being one of the principal conspirators in the 1675 revolt, and of going to St. Augustine to help Diocsale escape from arrest, but was released because of lack of credible witnesses.

[47] In 1693, Laureano de Torres y Ayala, waiting to take up his post of governor of Spanish Florida, led the land portion of an expedition to assess Pensacola Bay for a new settlement.

[52] In the winter of 1698–1699, 40 Chacatos led by a Spaniard were on a buffalo hunt when they encountered 24 men from Tasquique travelling with goods to trade at San Luis.

[52] Chacatos joined a force of 800 Spaniards and Apalachees that intended to attack the former Apalachicola Province towns (the English called them the Ochise Creeks) in central Georgia in 1702.

The Apalachicola towns ambused the Spanish-Apalachee force in the Battle of Flint River, killing or capturing 500 of them.

Dubcovsky says the demand by the Apalachicolas was in retaliation for the incident in which 40 Chacatos killed 16 Tasquiques five years earlier.

[55] Most of the Chacatos and the Apalachees from San Luis and Escambe who had fled to Pensacola continued on to the French settlement at Mobile.

[6] Some Chacatos and Apalachees stayed at Pensacola for another year or two, with 80 or more workers receiving rations from the Spanish presidio in 1707.

That year food shortages resulted in a reduction in the ration and another 150 Chacatos and 100 Apalachees left for Mobile.

[59] When the British took over West Florida in 1763, most of the Chacatos, along with other small tribes that had settled around Mobile, moved to Spanish Louisiana.

The Chacatos, Pensacolas, Capinans, Washas, Chawashas, and Pascagoulas living near Mobile had a total of 251 men at that time.

A small tribe known as "Chatos" was reported to have lived on the Mississippi coast and been absorbed into the Six Towns division of the Choctaws.

[57] Some groups from the tribes that had taken refuge in Louisiana settled in the Red River area and survived there into the 20th century.