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Title: The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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romisedto do so. The first reference to the Lower Shawnee Town, by that name, to befound in the Pennsylvania records, appears to be in a letter written byWilliam Trent to Secretary Peters, October 20, 1748, giving an accountof a murder which had been committed by an Indian at Kuskuskies. Anemploye of Hugh Parker, a Virginia trader there, was killed, as the resultof an altercation which had taken place between Parker and some of hisIndian customers, over some liquor, which he was tieing up, in order tosend to the Lower Shawna Town. There is in the Virginia Calendar of State Papers a message to theGovernor of Virginia from Nuckegunnah, King of the Shawanas livingat Allaganey, which may possibly refer to the Lower Shawnee Town, orto the settlements of the Shawnees and Delawares at Le Torts, abovethe mouth of the Great Kanawha. Lewis Evanss map of 1755 locatesWanduchales Old Town on the west bank of the Ohio River, oppositethe mouth of the Little Kanawha; and shows Wyandachales (present).
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O u 7, § % so .2 H .2 o O o o CO o 1-3 >> ^ S M .2 o CO H o 5 g G Lower Shawnee Town ; or Chillicothe on the Ohio 141 Town, on the east bank of the Scioto, not far above its mouth. Chris-topher Gist wrote in his Journal under date of January 27, 1751, thatthe town last named was a small village of the Delawares, and that helodged there at the house of an Indian whose name was Windaughalah,a great man and chief of this town, and much in the English interest.It is apparent, therefore, that Wanduchales Old Town on the Ohio hadbeen abandoned before 1751. The message from Nuckegunnah (Neucheconno) was dated August 4,1738, and stated that after news had been received from James Loganthat the Governor of Virginia would make peace between the Catawbasand the Northern Indians, the Shawnees had kept from sending anywar parties against the Catawbas; but that the Cattawpas came uponthem and killed one woman and a man, and took two prisoners, about themiddle of April; and another party was

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