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East and West Trails, No. 4.
Name: Scioto-Beaver Trail.
Termini: Scioto valley and Pennsylvania frontier.
Route: Crossed the watershed at the head of the Hockhocking river from the Shawanese village "Lower Shawnee Town" to the Tuscarawas valley near the Delaware capital near Coshocton—took to the watershed between the Tuscarawas and Ohio, and met the Great Trail at "Painted Post" (near Bouquet's camp No. 8). Connected on Tuscarawas with trails leading north and south.
Remarks: Next in importance in the West to the Great Trail; the main thoroughfare from the country of the Shawanese to the country of the Delawares and eastward. An extension led on into the country of the Miamis. Traversed by Christopher Gist on his mission for the Ohio Company to the Ohio country, see Gist's Journals, p. 35 et seq. For best map, see map with Pownall's Middle British Colonies in North America, 1776.
