[60] Mr. Draper reduces these estimates to “probabilities,” giving as the total distance 156 miles (Draper MSS., xxv J, fol. 49).
[61] This point of junction is eighteen miles east of Salem, which is given as the point of junction on Mr. English’s map of Clark’s route.—Conquest of the Northwest, vol. i, pp. 290, 291. Salem is the junction of the modern route from Kaskaskia with the St. Louis Trace.
[62] Additional testimony to the same effect is found in Draper MSS., xxv J, fol. 76.
[63] Evans’s History of Scioto County and Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio contains the best map of western Ohio extant.
[64] Historic Highways of America, vol. vi, p. 166.
[65] Josiah Morrow, to whom the author is indebted for much help in the study of Harmar’s route, affirms that in the land records of Warren County he has found reference to this as “Clark’s old war-road.”
[66] November 27, 1782.
[67] American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 88.
[68] American State Papers, vol. iv (Indian Affairs, vol. i), p. 97.
[69] Id.