Creek and so on to the mouth of
Redstone Creek.--R. G. T.

[16] In Col. Preston's MS. Register of Indian Depredations,
in the Wisconsin Historical Society's library, it is stated
that Robert Foyle, wife and five children, were killed on the
Monongahela in 1754. Gov. Dinwiddie, in his speech to the
Virginia house of burgesses in February, 1754, refers to this
barbarous affair, giving the same number of the family
destroyed; and the gazettes of that period state that Robert
Foyle, together with his wife and five children, the youngest
about ten years of age, were killed at the head of the
Monongahela; their bodies, scalped, were discovered February
4th, and were supposed to have been killed about two months
before.--L. C. D.

[17] In 1750, the Ohio Company, as a base of operations and
supplies, built a fortified warehouse at Will's Creek (now
Cumberland, Md.), on the upper waters of the Potomac. Col.
Thomas Cresap, an energetic frontiersman, and one of the
principal agents of the Company, was directed to blaze a
pack-horse trail over the Laurel Hills to the Monongahela. He
employed as his guide an Indian named Nemacolin, whose camp was
at the mouth of Dunlap Creek (site of the present Brownsville,
Pa.), an affluent of the Monongahela. Nemacolin pointed out an
old Indian trace which had its origin, doubtless, in an
over-mountain buffalo trail; and this, widened a little by
Cresap, was at first known as Nemacolin's Path. It led through
Little Meadows and Great Meadows--open marshes grown to grass,
and useful for feeding traders' and explorers' horses.
Washington traveled this path in 1753, when he went to warn the
French at Fort Le Boeuf. Again, but widened somewhat, it was
his highway in 1754, as far north as Gist's plantation; and at
Great Meadows he built Fort Necessity, where he was defeated.
Braddock followed it in great part, in 1755, and henceforth it
became known as "Braddock's Road." The present National Road
from Cumberland to Brownsville, via Uniontown, differs in
direction but little from Nemacolin's Path. For a map of
Braddock's Road, see Lowdermilk's _History of Cumberland, Md._,
p. 140, with description on pages 51, 52, 140-148. Ellis's
_History of Fayet