 Joel Gascoyne's 1685 "Plat of the Province of Carolina" showed the settlement by the name of Savannah Town (Cumming #101).The growing English colony considered Savannah Town important for its profitable Indian trade, and for frontier defense.A thriving business developed around colonial traders, many of them Scots-Irish, who used pack horses to carry their goods and travel throughout Native American communities in what was then considered the interior, western wilderness away from Low Country settlements.