FOOTNOTES:
[90] For the Hockhocking River, see Croghan’s Journals, vol. i of this series, p. 131, note 99.—Ed.
[91] Washington admonished his executors in his will, not to dispose of these lands too cheaply, and suggested a sale price of ten dollars per acre. This particular tract became the property of six of his grand-nieces, two of whom (named Fitzhugh) later settled in the vicinity.—Ed.
[92] The bald or white-headed eagle (haliaëtus leucocephalus), the American national symbol.—Ed.
[93] Peter Neisanger (or Niswonger) joined the Marietta colony in 1790. He was employed thereby as a ranger, and the succeeding year gave timely warning to the people assembled at a church service of a threatened Indian raid.—Ed.
[94] The red-bird was either the scarlet tanager (piranga rubra), or the cardinal grosbeak (cardinalis virginianus), both of which frequent the Ohio shores.—Ed.