FOOTNOTES:
[55] Piketown, first settled about 1796 by pioneers from Pennsylvania and Virginia, and laid out about 1814, is on the Scioto River sixty-four miles south of Columbus, and about thirty miles from the Ohio.—Ed.
[56] Paint Creek, a stream about sixty miles long, empties into the Scioto from the west, five miles below Chillicothe.—Ed.
[57] For a brief description of Chillicothe, see F. A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series, note 35.—Ed.
[58] Flint travelled from Chillicothe to Limestone over Zane’s Trace. For an account of this road, see Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 135.—Ed.
[59] The Virginia Military District, reserved by that state when she ceded her possessions north of the Ohio River to the United States Government, was a triangular tract, with the Ohio River shore between Little Miami and Scioto rivers as its base, and the apex at the sources of the Huron River. Large portions were given as bounty lands to Virginia soldiers of the Revolution; the remainder was ceded to the Federal Government in 1852. In 1871 the government retroceded this district to the state of Ohio, which, in turn, donated it to Ohio State University. See Hinsdale, Old Northwest (New York, 1888), p. 292.—Ed.
[60] For a brief account of the battle of Tippecanoe, see Evans’s Tour, volume viii of our series, note 131.—Ed.
[61] Dr. Daniel Drake, a native of Plainfield, New Jersey, whose boyhood was spent in Kentucky, came to Cincinnati in 1800 to study medicine. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1816, he interested himself in establishing the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, and became its first president. From that time until his death in 1852, he was connected with some medical college, either in Ohio or Kentucky. In addition to his writings on medical subjects, he published (1815) the book several times mentioned by Flint, Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country.—Ed.
[62] The remains of the mound-building Indians on Paint Creek, near Bainbridge, are among “the largest works in the Scioto valley.” See Fowke, Archæological History of Ohio (Columbus, 1902), p. 206; see also Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series, note 76.—Ed.
[63] For notes on the following places, see A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series: Limestone, note 23; Paris, note 29. F. A. Michaux’s Travels, volume iii of our series: Washington, note 37; May’s Lick, note 38; Millersburg, note 38. Cuming’s Tour, volume iv of our series: Blue Licks, note 117.—Ed.
[64] The supply of specie in the Western country had always been inadequate. Until the numerous state banks began to flood the country with paper money, about the second decade of the century, barter was regularly employed. Flint was in the West when the financial stringency that followed the War of 1812-15 was beginning to be felt in that region, and the reaction against the worthless state banks had set in. See post; also McMaster, History of the United States, iv, pp. 484-487.—Ed.