1760-1761]
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5th.—Travelled about 18 Miles and crossed a branch of little Beaver Creek clear Woods & good Road.
6th.—Travelled about Eighteen Miles and crossed two Branches of little Beaver Creek good Road & Clear Woods.
7th.—Crossed the mouth of big Beaver Creek at an Indian Village and came to Pittsburg about 25 Miles good Road & Clear Woods.[1]
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- ↑ Croghan returned to Pittsburg by the "great trail," a famous Indian
thoroughfare leading from the Forks of the Ohio to Detroit. For a description
of this route, see Hulbert, Indian Thoroughfares (Cleveland, 1902), p. 107;
and in more detail his article in Ohio Archæological and Historical Society Publications (Columbus, 1899), viii, p. 276.
Mohican John's village was on White Woman's Creek, near the site of Reedsburg, Ohio. Beaver's Town was at the junction of the Tuscarawas and the Big Sandy, the antecedent of the present Bolivar; for the town at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, see Weiser's Journal, ante.― Ed.
