But Gallipolis was not settled until 1790, as has been previously shown. Withers confounds the modern French town of Gallipolis, whose residents were the sad victims of Indian outrages rather than the abettors of them, with the old Shawnee town just below the mouth of the Scioto (site of Alexandria, O.). This fur-trading center was a village of log huts built by the French for the accommodation of their Shawnee allies, and was a center of frontier disturbances.––R. G. T.
Preston’s Journal does not lay much stress on Hogg’s delay. Norton’s Journal, speaking of Hogg, says, “common soldiers were by him scarcely treated with humanity,” and he seems to have regularly overruled and disobeyed Lewis. There was much rancor in camp, and Norton writes of the Cherokee allies, “The conduct and concord that was kept up among the Indians might shame us, for they were in general quite unanimous and brotherly.”––R. G. T.
This expedition was sent out under the auspices of Gov. Dinwiddie––Fauquier did not become governor until 1758. No countermanding orders were sent.––L. C. D.
Audley Paul was first lieutenant in Preston’s company.––L. C. D.
Withers, deriving his information from Taylor’s sketches, was misled as to any intention of establishing a fort at the mouth of the Kanawha; and also as to Paul’s, or any one else’s proposition to cross the Ohio, and invade the Shawnee towns. The only aim was, to reach the Upper Shawnee town.––L. C. D.