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Identifier: wildernesstrail02hann (find matches)
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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A Traders Map of the Ohio < From the orisinal MS. in the Library •.! CcnsrcM. Lower Shawnee Town ; or Chillicothe on the Ohio 157 Trent had started to build was in possession of the French, and the Eng-lish Traders had left the Ohio country, not to return for five years. In the original manuscript account of Losses occasioned by theFrench and Indians driving the English Traders off the Ohio, in 1754,made by George Croghan at Carlisle, April 24, 1756, the following itemof property is mentioned, belonging to William Trent, George Croghan,Robert Calendar, and Michael Teaff, Traders in Company: One largeHouse on the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the River Scioto, where theShawanese had built their new Town, called the Lower ShawaneseTown, which House we learn by the Indians is now in the possession of aFrench Trader, £200. Mrs. Mary Draper Ingles, who was carried off from Vances (orVauxs) Fort in Augusta County, Virginia, by the Shawnees in June, 1756,zwas taken by them to the Lowe
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