THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Explorations (1750) and
Reports (1749)
In: Perkins, Annals, p.
105-106.
In: EWTI, p. 48.
Perkins, Annals
In the fall of 1750, the Ohio Company sent out Christopher Gist to explore the regions west of the mountains. He was instructed. . . to conciliate the friendship of the Indian tribes. He visited Logstown, where he was received with jealousy, passed over to the Muskingum, where he found a village of Ottawas, friendly to the French, and a village of the Wyandots divided in sentiment. There he met Croghan, who had been sent out by Pa., and in concert they held a council with the chiefs, and received assurance of the friendship of the tribe. Next, they passed to the Shawanee towns on the Scioto, received assurances of friendship from them, and then crossed the Miami valley. "Nothing," said (page 106) they, "is wanting but cultivation. . .They crossed the Great Miami on a raft of logs, and visited Piqua, the chief town of the Pickawillanies, and here they made treaties with the Piquas [Shawnee; "one of the five principle divisions," BAE, 30, p. 260] and representatives of the Weas (Onias) and Piankeshaws. They were repulsed, however, by the address and promises of the English agents, and the chiefs of the tribe sent back a message from Gist, that their friendship should stand like the mountains. . .
Meanwhile, some traders had established themselves at Larimie's store, or Pickawillany, some forty seven miles N of the site of Dayton, Ohio.
EWTI: (page 48)
[In 1749] Croghan was sent out to report on the
French expedition whose passage down the Ohio had alarmed the Allegheny
Indians, and arrived at Logstown just after Celeron had passed, thus
neutralizing the latter's influence in that region.- Thwaites2
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2Pa. Col. Rec. v:387; Pa. Archives 2:31.
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