may be, however, that he was merely repeating the judgment
of an earlier generation which had sought to legalize its settlement
made prior to the second Stanwix Treaty. The Indian description of the
boundary line in the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768 may also have had some
impact upon Meginness. Regardless, a comparison of data, pro and con,
will demonstrate that the Tiadaghton is Lycoming Creek.

John Blair Linn, of Bellefonte, stood second to Meginness in popular
repute as historian of the West Branch Valley. However, he too calls
Pine Creek the Tiadaghton, though the reliability of his sources is
questionable. Unlike Meginness, whose judgment derived somewhat from
interviews with contemporaries of the period, Linn based his contention
upon the statements made by the Indians at the second Stanwix Treaty
meeting in 1784.[10]

At those sessions on October 22 and 23, 1784, the Pennsylvania
commissioners twice questioned the deputies of the Six Nations about the
location of the Tiadaghton, and were told twice that it was Pine
Creek.[11] In the first instance, Samuel J. Atlee, speaking for the
other Pennsylvania commissioners, called attention to the last deed made
at Fort Stanwix in 1768 and asked the question about the Tiadaghton:

This last deed, brothers, with the map annexed, are descriptive of
the purchase made sixteen years ago at this place; one of the
boundary lines calls for a creek by the name of _Tyadoghton_, we
wish our brothers the Six Nations to explain to us clearly which you
call the _Tyadoghton_, as there are two creeks issuing from the
_Burnet's Hills_, _Pine_ and _Lycoming_.[12]

Captain Aaron Hill, a Mohawk chief, responded for the Indians:

With regard to the creek called _Tyadoghton_, mentioned in your deed
of 1768, we have already answered you, and again repeat it, it is
the same you call _Pine Creek_, being the largest emptying into the
west branch of the _Susquehannah_.[13]

This, of course, was the "more positive answer" which the Indians had
promised after the previous day's interrogation.[14] It substantiated
the description given in the discussions preceding the Fort Stanwix
Treaty of 1768.[15] However, the map illustrating the treaty line,
although tending to support this view, is subject to interpretation.[16]
Regardless, this record of the treaty sessions provides the strongest
evidence to sustain the Pine Creek view.

There is little doubt that