THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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George Mercer Papers
In: Mulkearn, Lois, ed. and comp. George
Mercer
Papers: Relating to the Ohio Company of
Virginia, University of Pittsburgh
Press,
1954, pp. 1(Title), 11, 17, 18-24,
486, 490-491, 499.
See Christopher Gist, "First Journal" in: Mulkearn, Lois, ed. and comp., George Mercer Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1954, pp. 11, 17, 18-24, 486, 490-491, 499. The only information included in this section of the collection, not found in the link, are the title page and the second half of p. 486. They are as follows:
RELATING
TO THE OHIO COMPANY
OF VIRGINIA
Compiled and Edited by
Lois Mulkearn
1954
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
. . .
84. The course led from the east side of the Big Beaver, passing near present West Salem, Pennsylvania, to the vicinity of Lisbon, Ohio, (Gist [Darlington edition], op. cit., pp. 102-03). This was the Great Trail from Fort Pitt to Fort Detroit, which followed the north bank of the Ohio River from Fort Pitt to the mouth of the Beaver, thence along the watershed to the "Crossing-Place of the Muskingum" (Bolivar, Ohio).
Bouquet, in his journal of his expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764, mentions that somewhere between camps numbers seven and eight the "path divided into two branches, that to the southwest leading to the lower towns upon the Muskingum. In the forks of the path stand several trees painted by the Indians, in a hieroglyphic manner, denoting the number of wars in which they have engaged, and the particulars of their success in prisoners and scalps." - Hulbert names this crossing "Painted Post." Archer B. Hulbert, Indian Thoroughfares . . . (Cleveland, Ohio, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1902), p. 108; [William Smith], An Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, in the Year MDCCLXIV, Under the Command of Henry Bouquet, Esq. . . . (Philadelphia, Printed: London, Reprinted for T. Jeffries, 1766), pp. 11-12.
85. The west branch of Little Beaver Creek. Thomas Hutchins, "A Topographical Plan of the Part of the Indian Country Through Which the Army under the Command of Colonel Bouquet Marched in the Year 1764."- Map in William Smith, op. cit.
86. After crossing the west branch of the Little Beaver the trail crossed the upper reaches of Yellow Creek and a series of small north-flowing tributaries of the present Big Sandy Creek, a tributary of the Tuscarawas or east branch of the Muskingum River.- Ibid.
(Note: pp. 20-23 and some other pages from this source may be found in Doc. 317, Dft. Ex. 108.)
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