THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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A Collection of Extracts
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From: Hanna,
1:143, 146, 155, 156; Greene & Harr., p. 196; Jefferson, Collected
Writings, vol. 8, p. 348; Jefferson, vol. 3, pp. 209-11; Draper, 1, YY,
3; Schoolcraft, 4:614, 6:242, and |
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Johnson, Count Zinzendorf |
Paxinosa- 1758 |
fn. 15. In 1758 Paxinosa (see entry for 1754) removed to the Ohio country, where he was the last Shawanese king west of the Alleghanies (what does this latter mean?- ewv)
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Hanna 1:146 |
Sh. Towns- Prior to 1758 |
Prior to Nov. 1758 [Croghan's Journal of that date erroneously headed "Post's Journal" in Penna. Arch. III, 560] Shawnee removed from Lower Sh. Town, mouth of Scioto; went farther up near (1) site of later village of Westfall on W bank of Scioto, and (2) on Pickaway Plains on E, 4 mi. below Circleville, in Peckaway Co. This town later called Lower Sh. Town (see Hutchin's map of 1764). On Crevecoeur's map of 1787, it is called Kispoko. By the Kentuckians- Chillicothe; also, Upper Chillicothe.
Hanna 1:155
Del. R. Sh. finally returned to Wyoming (or Shawnee Flats- Plymouth) on Susquehanna; greater part later (1743) removed to Logstown on Ohio; "another band, with Packsinosa as their chief, retiring northward from Wyoming about 1756 and settling for a time with the Mohicans at Tioga and Otseningo, on the Upper Susquehanna."
Kakowatcheky was succeeded as chief at Wyoming, a few years after his departure from there in 1743, by Packsinosa. This chief joined with a number of others in executing a deed to the Penns, Aug. 22, 1749, conveying the land between the Delaware and Susquehanna north of the Blue Mountains and south of Wyoming. He remained true to the English during the trying years from 1755-1758. In the early part of May, 1758, he was met by Benjamin, a Mohican Indian of Bethlehem, near Tioga, with his entire family. He told Benjamin that, as he hear the English had very bad designs against the Indians, he was going with his family to his land at the Ohio, "where he was born."1 At Fort Pitt, Aug. 12, 1760, he attended a conference held by Gen. Monckton with the chiefs of the Six Nations, Twightwees, Dels., Ottawas, Wyandots and Shawnees.
Pukshenoses Town is shown on Crevecoeur's 1787 map of the Scioto Plains (Vol. II, Hanna). Its founder may have been Packsinosa, but more prob. was Puckeeshano, or Packisheno, the father of Tecumseh.
fn. 1. A chief called Buckshenoath is mentioned by
Edward Shippen in the Penna. Arch. ii, 134, April 19, 1756 [Buck
(-Puck) shen (-sin) oath (-osa) Shippen's rendering better Shawnee than usual
rendering Packsinosa, as far as all except initial B is concerned.]
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1 Penna. Col. Rec. VI, 35, 360; vii, 104, 108, 139, 187, 726; viii, 126; Penna. Archives ii, 33, 34, 459, 491, 634; iii, 745; N. Y. Col. Doc., vii, 17, 19, 20, 246, 316.
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Jefferson, Coll.
Wr. |
1759 |
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Croghan |
Where they reside |
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Shawanees |
500 |
Sioto & branches of Muskingum |
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1) Geo. Croghan gave first list to Gen. Stanwix, 1759.
Greene & Harrison, p. 196.
Shawnees- 500 fighting men- Ohio
Jefferson, vol. II, pp. 209-11: List of Geo. Croghan, Deputy Agent for Ind. Affairs under Sir William Johnson, in Jefferson, "Notes on Va.", in Writings III, pp. 209-211.
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Draper 1 YY, 3 |
1759 |
2d Para. When the Southern band of Shawanese were attacked on the Cumberland at Nashville, and driven from there in 1759, they would seem to me to have located at Shanee town on the lower Ohio, in now Illinois, where they were about the period of 1760-65; & then perhaps they located on Mad River, perhaps in the latter year, in time for Tecumseh to have been born there- or, on the way there, as his brother, the Prophet, relates, in Vol. 1st of Hall & McKenney's Indian Tribes.
4th Para. J. H. Jaines Notes of Kenton show that in 1780, this stream was known as the Piqua Fork of Miami, till Symmes subsequently restored its original signification.
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Schoolcraft, Information, 2:241 |
Prophets- 1758- or 1759? |
[Pontiac] related to the [Alg. & Wyandot tribes] on a formal occasion, the dream of a visit of a Delaware prophet to Paradise, in a manner to secure the belief of his hearers. He exhorted them to adhere to their antient customs, arms, and arts.
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Schoolcraft 4:614 |
1759 |
Power of France fell with Montcalm, in 1759). The aborigines who had been her peculiar care and favorites from early days, could not be made to believe that her flag had been finally stuck in the Canadas.
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Schoolcraft 6:242 |
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Other tribes besides the Cherokees, manifested dissatisfaction, or broke out into open hostility. The Shawnee and Delawares of the Ohio valley had been inimical to the colonies ever since their migrations, or, in effect, expulsion from Pa., in 1759. The entire mass of the Algonquin tribes of the upper lakes, and to the west of the Ohio, deeply sympathized with the French and the loss of Canada.
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