Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809)

by Fortescue Cuming

FOOTNOTES:

[73] On the early history of Wheeling and its importance as a terminus for overland travel from Redstone and Fort Pitt, see Michaux’s Travels, vol. iii of this series, p. 33, note 15; also Thwaites, On the Storied Ohio.—Ed.

[74] The use of the terms Indian Wheeling Creek, Indian Kentucky, etc. for streams flowing into the Ohio from its northern and western side is a reminiscence of the days when the Ohio was a boundary between the white settlements and Indian territory. The Indian title to these lands was not extinguished, and the danger of attack from this side of the river was not removed until after the Treaty of Greenville (1795).

The town laid out opposite Wheeling was not the nucleus of the well-known Canton (Stark County), Ohio; but a place that perished, according to Cuming’s prediction.—Ed.