ns had seven villages in the
neighborhood of the junction of St. Joseph and St. Mary's, which
streams unite to form the Maumee. The village which lay in the
forks of the St. Joseph and the Maumee, was the principal; one
in the forks of the St. Mary's and the Maumee, which was called
Kekionga, had 30 houses; at Chillicothe, on the north bank of
the Maumee, were 58 houses, and opposite these 18 houses. The
Delawares had two villages on the St. Mary's, 45 houses in all,
and a town on the St. Joseph of 36 houses.--R. G. T.

[13] A third expedition, under Maj. J. F. Hamtramck,
went against the Wabash Indians, successfully destroyed
several deserted villages, and reached Vincennes without
loss.--R. G. T.

[14] In his report to the Secretary of War, October 29,
1790, Governor St. Clair said: "I have the pleasure to
inform you of the entire success of Gen. Harmar at the Indian
towns on the Miami and St. Joseph Rivers, of which he has
destroyed five in number, and a very great quantity of corn
and other vegetable provisions. It is supposed that about
two hundred of the Indians have likewise fallen in the
different encounters that have happened between them and
the detachment, for there has been no general action; but it
has not been without considerable loss on our part.... Of the
Federal troops, Major Wyllys and Lieutenant Frothingham and
seventy-seven men; of the militia, Major Fontaine, Captain
McMurtry, and Captain Scott, a son of General Scott, and
seventy-three men, are among the slain."--R. G. T.

[15] Thirteen miles below Marietta.--R. G. T.

[16] Eighteen miles above Marietta, and one above St. Mary's,
W. Va.--R. G. T.

[17] Dunkard Creek flows eastward into the Monongahela. Fish
Creek flows southwestward into the Ohio, emptying 113 miles
below Pittsburg, and 58 above Marietta. A famous Indian
war-trail ran up Fish and down Dunkard--a short-cut from Ohio
to the western borders of Pennsylvania and Virginia.--R. G. T.

[18] Soon after the establishment of Marietta, a rude wagon
road was opened through the forest between that colony and
Redstone (Brownsville, Pa.) This was the road Carpenter was
following.--R. G. T.

[19] With Gen. Richard Butler, who was killed in the final