[1]. American Pioneer, volume one, 1842, contribution by Dr. S. P. Hildreth.
[2]. A portion of the cleared ground was planted with peaches, and the second or third year after, fine fruit was obtained from this orchard, probably the first in Ohio. One variety has been quite largely cultivated in Marietta and its vicinity, and named after its originator “the Doughty peach.”
[3]. Ellen D. Larned, in the History of Windham County, Connecticut.
[4]. Arius Nye, in Transactions of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society.
[5]. James R. Albach’s Annals of the West.
[6]. This village and Shawneetown, at the mouth of the Scioto, were the only exceptions to the abandonment of the upper Ohio valley noted above.
[7]. Gist, however, found, in 1750, the town on Whitewoman Creek, called Muskingum, “inhabited by Wyandots” and containing about one hundred families. This was undoubtedly an isolated government. As late as 1791, the Indian war being in progress, the different tribes were massed in what is now the northwestern part of the State, and their old abiding places, their favorite regions, were of course deserted. Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, Mingoes, Senecas, Chippewas, and others, were upon the Maumee and its tributaries.
[8]. Some of the Delaware chiefs who visited Philadelphia during the Revolution spoke figuratively of having “placed the Shawnees in their laps.”
[9]. This information is derived from a communication in the Archaeological American, written in 1819, by Colonel John Johnston, then Indian agent, and located at Piqua, Ohio.
[10]. It was from the fact of these that the Indian village and the present town of Piqua, Miami County, derived their names. The name Pickaway, which has been given to one of the older counties of Ohio, but which was originally applied to the “plains” within its limits, is a corruption of Piqua.