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 . of the Ohio, early in 1745, and commenced thesettlement of this town of Es-kip-pa-ki-thi-ki. Prosperity attended thecolony for two or three years, but roving bands of Northern Indiansfound out their new location, and killed and harassed them Shawanoes of the Forks of Ohio hearing of these attacks on theirwayward brethren, and commiserating their misfortunes, urged theirspeedy return;
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 . of the Ohio, early in 1745, and commenced thesettlement of this town of Es-kip-pa-ki-thi-ki. Prosperity attended thecolony for two or three years, but roving bands of Northern Indiansfound out their new location, and killed and harassed them Shawanoes of the Forks of Ohio hearing of these attacks on theirwayward brethren, and commiserating their misfortunes, urged theirspeedy return; but the disorganizers, with Chartier at their head, reso-lutely refused, believing that the injuries done them had been at the insti-gation of their brethren at the Forks of Ohio, in order to dishearten themin their isolated home and compel their early return to the great body ofthe nation. The depredations of their enemies—probably the Iroquois,who claimed the country by former conquest, and hence warred uponall intruders—increasing, the Shawanoes, numbering about four hundred 1 William Atchison Finley was the name of of the Creeks, in Georgia Col. Rec, vi., o W-J «3 rt - ^ ^ G -t-> bxi I pq ~ O Oh y Oh O •1-H ,—I ^ o 2 8 w B 8 ^ 2 •> - ,o oox! a •- u 01 fc ^o a £ 3 rt -cr ;= .5 2 c a l-H HH HJ o a hj c-1 ^ o . o ^ •§ &§ H a •3 .O 2 ^ ^ s o co c .S2 3 ^d M W O c 3 > 3 w 0 a H3 ^~ u. C C CJ John Finley; and Kentucky before Boone 241 and fifty souls, abandoned Es-kip-pa-ki-thi-ki; and betaking themselvesto their canoes, passed down Lulbegrud Creek and Red River into Ken-tucky, thence descending the Ohio, and ascending the Tennessee toOccachappo or Bear Creek, and up that stream thirty miles, where theyleft their canoes, and commenced an unprovoked war upon the Chicka-saws, killing several of that nation. This warlike people quicklyresented this dastardly conduct, embodied and drove off this vagabondband of intruders, who r
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