Memoirs of the Miami valley . COURT HOUSE, SIDNEY, i^.-*^ k -- ..^ FROM TWO- ?MILE BRIDGE NEAR SIDNEY, OHIO. THE STORY OF SHELBY COUNTY 337 most. The white traders never returned to live at the place, andthe Indians retired to a little distance west, where they continued acommunity life until their village was destroyed by Gen. ClarkesKentuckians more than thirty years afterward. In 1769, seventeen years after the Langdale raid, a FrenchCanadian trader named Peter Loramie came up the Great Miamiriver from Kentucky (where his trading store had made a somewhatnotorious headquarters for ho
Memoirs of the Miami valley . COURT HOUSE, SIDNEY, i^.-*^ k -- ..^ FROM TWO- ?MILE BRIDGE NEAR SIDNEY, OHIO. THE STORY OF SHELBY COUNTY 337 most. The white traders never returned to live at the place, andthe Indians retired to a little distance west, where they continued acommunity life until their village was destroyed by Gen. ClarkesKentuckians more than thirty years afterward. In 1769, seventeen years after the Langdale raid, a FrenchCanadian trader named Peter Loramie came up the Great Miamiriver from Kentucky (where his trading store had made a somewhatnotorious headquarters for hostile Shawanees) and, not pausing tovisit the Picqualinee village, reached the mouth of the creek whichwas later to bear his name, and pushed up the lesser stream aboutfifteen miles, where he selected a site and established himself, at-tracting a large settlement of Indians, chiefly Shawanees. He wasupon intimate and friendly terms with this tribe, and their allies, andexercised over them the influence commonly possessed by the Frenchwhen free from Br
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