Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements of Ohio

Last Updated on June 25, 2024 by Dennis

These pages provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Ohio and known at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written (1906).

Coshocton

(Heckewelder derives a similar name, Coshecton, from gichiéchton (German form), finished, completed). Formerly the chief town of the Turtle tribe of the Delawares, on the site of Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio. Destroyed by the whites in 1781.

Cranetown

A former Wyandot village on the site of the present Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio. It was known to the Indians as Tarhe, from the name of a chief in 1790, at which time it contained about 500 inhabitants in 100 wigwams built of bark. 5

Cranetown

A former Wyandot village in Crawford County, Ohio, 8 or 10 m. N. E. of the present Upper Sandusky. 6

Custaloga’s Town

The Delawares had two villages, each known as Custaloga’s Town, from the name of its chief, probably one and the same person. The first village was near French Creek, opposite Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1760; the other was on Walhonding River, near Killbucks Creek, in Coshocton County, Ohio, in 1766. The chief of this second village was chief of the Unalachtigo Delawares, and had probably removed from the first village about 1763. The name is also written Costeloga, Custalaga, Custologa, Custologo, Kustaloga.

Darby’s Village

A former Huron village on upper Darby Creek, about midway between the present Columbus and Marysville, Ohio. 7

Eastern Shawnee

A division of the Shawnee now living in Indian Territory. They formerly lived with the Seneca (Mingo) near Lewistown, Ohio, but sold their lands in 1831 and removed with the latter tribe to Kansas. In 1867 they separated from the Seneca and removed to Indian Territory under the name of Eastern Shawnee. They are now under the Seneca school and numbered 95 in 1904. (J. M.)

Gekelemukpechuenk

A Delaware village in Ohio in 1770-73 and the residence of Netawatwees, the principal chief of the tribe. Perhaps identical with White Eyes town. It was abandoned in 1773 or 1774, the inhabitants removing to Coshocton, on the east side of the Muskingum, which Netawatwees henceforth made his chief residence. 8

Girty’s Town

A Shawnee village in 1795 on St Marys River, east of Celina Reservoir, Auglaize County, Ohio. It took its name from Simon Girty, an Indian trader living with the Shawnee. (J. M.)

Grapevine Town

A former village, perhaps belonging to the Delawares, situated 8 miles up Captina Creek, Belmont County, Ohio. 9

Greentown

A former Delaware village on the Black fork of Mohican River, near the boundary of Richland and Ashland counties in Ohio.

Consult further:

1. Treaty of Maumee Rapids (1817) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 204, 1873;
2. Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Ohio map, 1899.

Grenadier Squaw’s Town

A Shawnee village situated in 1774 on Scippo Creek, Pickaway County, Ohio. The name was derived from Grenadier Squaw, a sister of Corn stalk, the Shawnee chief, who made this her home. (J. M.)

Hockhocken

(‘place of gourds’. Hewitt). A former Delaware village on Hocking River, Ohio.

Hog Creek

A former Shawnee settlement on a branch of Ottawa , in Allen County, Ohio. The Indians sold their reservation there in 1831 and removed west of the Mississippi. (J. M.)

Jeromestown

A former Delaware village near the present Jeromesville, Ashland CO., Ohio, on a section of land set aside for the use of the Delawares by act of Mar. 3, 1807, but ceded to the United States by treaty of Sept. 29, 1817. It received its name from Jean Baptiste Jerome, an early French trader. See Brown, West. Gaz., 314, 1817; Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, I, 255, 1898; Eoyce in 18th Rep. B. A. east, Ohio map, 1899.

Junqueindundeh

(‘it has a rock.’ — Hewitt). A village, probably of the Hurons, situated in 1766 on Sandusky River, Ohio, 24 m. above its mouth. — Smith, Bouquet Exped., 67, 1766.

Junundat

(‘one hill.’ — Hewitt). A Huron village in 17.56 on a small creek that empties into a little lake below the mouth of Sandusky River, Seneca co., Ohio.

• Ayonontouns. — La Jonquifere (1751) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., x, 240, 1858.
• Ayonontout. — Ibid., VI, 733, 18.55.
• Canundageh. — Guy Park conf. (1775), ibid., VIII, 5.56, 18.57.
• Chenunda. — Croghan (1759) quoted by Rupp, West. Penn., 146, 1846.
• Chenundea. — Croghan (1759) quoted by Proud, Penn. , ii,296, 1798.
• Chinundeda. — Croghan (1760) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th south, IX, 261, 1871.
• Junundat. — Peters (1760), ibid., 258.
• Sunyendeand. — Smith (1799) quoted by Drake, Trag. Wild., 201, 1841.
• Wyandot Town. — Hutchins, map in Smith, Bouquet Exped., 1766.

Killbuck’s Town

A former Delaware town on the east side of Killbuck cr., about 10 m. south of Wooster, Wayne co., Ohio; occupied as early as 1764 by a chief named Killbuck, from whom it received the name. (J. M.)

Kiskominitoes

(‘plenty of walnuts.’ — Hewitt). A former Delaware village on the north bank of Ohio River, in Ohio, between Hocking and Scioto rivers The word seems to be identical wdth Kiskemeneco and Kiskiminetas (q. v.) in Pennsylvania. On Lattre’s map “Kiskowanitas” is located on thes. east side of Maumee River, Ohio.

• Kiskominitoes. — Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1777.
• Kiskomnitos. — La Tour, map, 1782.
• Kiskowanitas. — Lattre, map, 1784.

Languntennenk

A village of Moravian Delawares founded in 1770 on Beaver River, probably near the present Darlington, in Beaver Co.. Pa., by Indians who removed from Lawunkhannek. In 1773 they abandoned the village and joined the other Moravians on the Muskingum, in Ohio. The missionaries called it Friedensstadt, q. V. (j. m.)

• Langundowi-Oteey. — Loskiel (1794) cited by Rupp, West. Pa., 47, 1846.
• Languntennenk. — Crantz cited, ibid., 47.
• Languntoueniink. — Zeisberger (1791), Diary, ii, 2.34, 188.5.
• Languntoutenuenk. — Crantz, Hist, of the Brethren, 594, 1780.

Lewistown

A village of Shawnee and Seneca, taking its name from the Shawnee chief Captain Lewis, formerly near the site of the present Lewistown, Logan co., Ohio, on lands granted to them by treaty of Sept. 29, 1817, but sold under the provisions of the Lewistown treaty of July 20, 1831. See Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, ii, 102, 1896; Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. east, 686,732,1899. (J. M.)

Lick Town

A Shawnee (?) village, in 1776-82, on upper Scioto River, Ohio, probably near Circleville. The true name was probably Piqua or Chillicothe. (J. M.)

• Lick Town. — Hutchins, map in Smith, Bouquet’s Exped.,1766.
• Salt Lick Town. — Smith, ibid., 67 (not Salt Lick Town on Mahoning Creek).

Logstown

An important village formerly on the right bank of Ohio River, about 18 miles below Pittsburg, in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania. It was originally settled by Shawnee and Delawares prior to 1748, and in the following year was reported by Celeron to contain 40 cabins occupied by Iroquois, Shawnee, “Loups” (Delaware, Munsee, and Mahican), as well as Iroquois from Sault St Louis and Lake of Two Mountains, with some Nipissing, Abnaki, and Ottawa. Father Bonnecamps, of the same expedition, estimated the number of cabins at 80, and says “we called it Chiningue, from its vicinity to a river of that name” (Mag. Am. Hist., ii, 142, 1878); but it should not be confounded with the Shenango some distance north, on Beaver Creek. Croghan in 1765 (Thwaites, Early West. Trav., I, 127, 1904) speaks of Logstown as an old settlement of the Shawnee. It was abandoned about 1750 and reoccupied by a mixed population of Mingo (chiefly Seneca), Mahican, Ottawa, and others in the English interest. About this time a new village was built with the aid of the French on a hill overlooking the old site. Logstown was an important trading rendezvous, one of Croghan’s trading houses being established there; it was also the home of Half-King (Scruniyatha or Monakatuatha) in 1753-54 (although it is stated that his dwelling was situated a few miles away), and was a customary stopping place of colonial officers and emissaries, as Weiser, Gist, Croghan, Céloron, and Washington, the latter remaining here five days while on his way to Venango and Le Boeuf in 1753, and again making it a resting place while on his way to Kanawha River in 1770. Logstown was also the scene of the treaty between the Virginia commissioners and the Indians of this section in 1752. According to the author of Western Navigation (76, 1814), and Cuming (Western Tour, 80, 1810), there was also a settlement known as Logstown on the opposite side of the Ohio. It was abandoned by the Indians in 1758, immediately after the capture of Ft Du Quesne. In addition to the authorities cited, see Darlington, Christopher Gist’s Journals, 1893; Pa. Col. Rec., V, 348 et seq., 1851. (C. T.)

• Chiningue. — Céloron (1749) in Mag. Am. Hist., II, 143, 1878.
• Chinnigne. — Thwaites, Early West. Trav., l, 24, note, 1904.
• Lockstown. — Narr. of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger (1769) transl. in Pa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XXIX,no. 116, 412, 1905.
• Logge Town. — Dinwiddie Papers (1761), I, 6, 1883.
• Logg’s-Town. — Hamilton (1749) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VI, 531, 1855.
• Loggs-town. — Bouquet (1764), Exped., 46, 1868.
• Logs Town. — Croghan (1748) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VII, 267,1856.
• Log’s Town, — French officer (1749), ibid., iv, 533, 1855.
• Shenango. — Thwaites, op. cit.

Lower Delaware Town

A former Delaware village on the extreme headwaters of Mohican River, 5 or 6 m. directly north of the site of the city of Ashland, in Ashland County, Ohio. — Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. east, Ohio map, 1899.

Lowertown

A name applied at different periods to two distinct Shawnee villages in Ohio. The one commonly so called was originally on the Ohio, just below the mouth of the Scioto, until it was carried off by a flood, when it was rebuilt on the opposite side of the Scioto, about the site of Portsmouth, Scioto County. It was here in 1750-54, but before 1766 the inhabitants removed upstream to Chillicothe, in Ross County, which was frequently known as Lowertown, or Lower Shawnee Town, to distinguish it from Lick Town, 25 m. above. See Chillicothe, Scioto. (J. M.)

• Lower Shawnee Town. — Common names used by early writers.
• Lowertown. — Common name used by early writers.
• Shawnoah Basse Ville. — Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1777.

Mahoning

(‘at the salt-lick.’ — Heckewelder). A Delaware village in 1764 on the west bank of Mahoning River, perhaps between Warren and Youngstown, Trumbull County, Ohio. (J. M)

• Mahoning. — Hutchins’ map (1764) in Smith, Bouquet’.s Exped.,1766.
• Mahonink. — Heckewelder in Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., n. s., IV, 366, 1834 (correct form).
• Mahony Town. — Ibid., 390.

Mamalty

Mentioned in the narrative of Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leinioger (Pa. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XXIX, 412, 1905) as a (Delaware?) village in west Pennsylvania or east Ohio in 1759.

Marriskintom

A village marked on Esnauts and Rapilly’s map of 1777 on the east side of lower Scioto River in Ohio. It may have belonged to the Shawnee or to the Delawares, and is distinct from Muskingum. (J. M.)

Meshkemau

An Ottawa village, commonly called “Meshkemau’s village,” from the name of its chief, formerly existing on Maumee Bay, Lucas County, Ohio, on land sold in 1833. The name is also written Meskemau and Mishkemau.

Mohickon John’s Town

A village, probably occupied by a band of Mahican under a chief known as Mohickon John, formerly on the upper waters of Mohican River, probably on Jerome fork, in the present Ashland County, Ohio. It is probably the Mohicken Village mentioned by Croghan in 1760. (J. M.)

• Mohican Johnstown. — Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, II,832, 1896.
• Mohicken Village. — Croghan (1760) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th south, IX, 378, 1871.
• Mohickon John’s Town. — Hutchins map in Smith, Bouquet’s Exped., 1766.
• Ville de Jean. — La Tour, map, 1784 (“Mohickon on Ville de Jean”).

Muskingum

(‘moose eye or face.’ — Hewitt). A Delaware (?) village marked on old maps as on the west bank of Muskingum River, Ohio.

• Muskingom. — La Tour, map, 1779.
• Muskingum. — Gussefeld, map, 1784.
• Muskingun. — Alcedo, Die. Geog., III, 274, 1788.
• Muskinkum. — Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1777.

Nawake

A place marked as an Indian fort on Lattre’s map of 1784, on the upper Scioto, in Ohio. It may have belonged to the Shawnee.

Newcomerstown

The village of the Delaware chief Newcomer in 1766-81, about the site of the present New Comerstown, on Muskingum River, Tuscarawas co., Ohio. The chief’s Indian name was Noatwhelama.

• New Camero Town. — La Tour, map, 1784 (misprint).
• New Comers Town. — Hutchins, map in Smith, Bouquet’s Exped., 1766.
• Ville des nouveaux venus, La Tour, map, 1784 (New Camero town, or). ,

Newtown

A former village, probably of the Delawares and Iroquois, on the north bank of Licking River, about the site of the present Zanesville, Ohio.

Newtown

A former village, probably of the Delawares and Iroquois, on Muskingum River, about the site of the present Newton, Muskingum co., Ohio.

Newtown

A former village, probably of the Delawares and Iroquois, on the west side of Wills Creek, near the site of the present Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio.

Old Shawnee Town

A village of the Shawnee, situated before 1770 on Ohio River in Gallia County, Ohio, 3 m. above the mouth of the Great Kanawha. — Washington (1770) quoted by Rupp, West Penn., app., 401, 1846

Oquanoxa

An Ottawa village, named from the resident chief, that formerly existed on the west bank of the Little Auglaize, at its mouth, in Paulding County, Ohio. The reservation was sold in 1831.

Ouabanghirea

One of several towns situated close together, apparently on Ohio River or one of its tributaries, on Marquette’s map of 1673 as given by Thevenot (but not on the true map as given by Shea, Discov. and Expl. Miss. Val., 1852). It is possible that the name refers to the Ouabano; but the way in which these towns are located on the map shows that their situation is mere guesswork.

Owendos

(‘an island’, or possibly for Ouendai, ‘Hurons’). A village marked on early maps on the headwaters of Tuscarawas or Beaver Creek, in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

• Ovvendoes. — Alcedo, Die. Geog., in, 274, 1788.
• Owendoes. — Esnauts and Rapilly Map, 1777.
• Owendos. — Homann Heirs Map, 1756.

Owl’s Town

A former village, probably of the Delawares, on Mohican River in Coshocton County, Ohio. — Hutchins map in Smith, Bouquet’s Exped., 1766.

Pequottink

A village of the Moravian Delawares established in 1788 on the east bank of Huron River, near the present Milan, Erie Co., Ohio. It was still occupied in 1805.

• New Salem. — Loskiel, Hist. Missions, map, 1794.
• Pequottink. — Harris, Tour, 135, 1805.
• Petquottink. — Loskiel, op. cit.
• Pettquottmg. — Zeisberger (1786), Diary, 234, 275, 1885 (the stream).

Pickawillanee

A village on Miami River, at the site of the present Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, destroyed about 1750. It was occupied by the Miami, who were driven out in 1763 by the tribes adhering to the English interest. The site was afterward occupied by the Shawnee as Piqua Town (q. v.). The Piets, mentioned about that time as a western tribe, are located on old maps in this vicinity. (j. m.)

• Pickawillanees. — Carver, Trav., map, 1778.
• Pickawillany. — Esnauts and Rapilly Map, 1777.
• Piets. — Stobo (1764) quoted by Rupp., W. Penn., app., 295, 1846.
• Tawixtwi, — La Tour Map, 1784 (for Twightwee, a name for the Miami).

Pigeon Town

One of the former villages of the Mequachake or Spitotha division of the Shawnee, situated on Mad River, 3 m. northwest of West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio. This and the others were destroyed by Gen. Benjamin Logan in 1786. See Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, II, 98, 1896; Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Ohio map, 1899.

Piqua

The name of two or more former Shawnee villages in Ohio, occupied by the Piqua division of the tribe: (1) The earlier town, which was the birthplace of the noted Tecumtha, was situated on the north side of Mad River, about 5 m. west of the present Springfield, in Clark County. It was destroyed by the Kentuckians under Gen. G. R. Clark in 1780, and never rebuilt, the Indians removing to the (Great) Miami River, where they established two new towns known as Upper and Lower Piqua. (2) Upper Piqua was on Miami River, 3 m. north of the present Piqua in Miami County, and on the site of the former Miami town of Pickawillanee, q. v. (3) Lower Piqua was a smaller village on the site of the great town of that name. Both villages were within the territory ceded by the treaty of Greenville in 1795, after which the Shawnee retired to Wapakoneta. See Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, 1896-98. For synonyms see Piqua, above. (J. M.)

• Little Pickaway. — Flint, Ind. Wars, 151, 1833.
• Pikkawa. — Harmar (1790) quoted by Rupp, West. Penn., app., 227, 1846.

Pluggy’s Town

A former village, named from its chief, which occupied the site of Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio, in 1776. It belonged to a marauding band of Indians, who seem to have been chiefly Mingo. See Butterfield, Washington Irvine Corr., 9, 1882.

Roche de Boeuf

(French: ‘buffalo rock’). An Ottawa village on the northwest bank of Maumee River, near Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio. In 1831 the reservation was sold, and the Indians removed to Kansas, where they joined the Ottawa of Blanchard Fork, and by treaty agreement were to become citizens in 1867.

Fondagame.— Detroit treaty (1807) in Am. St. Pa¬ pers, Ind. Aff., I, 747, 1832 (misprint for Tondaganie the chief).
Roche de Boeuf. — Detroit treaty (1807) in U. -S. Ind. Treat., 193, 1873.
Rocher de Bout.— Hutchins, map (1778) , in Butterfield, Washington-Irvine Corr., 364, 1882.
Tendaganee’s village —Brown, West. Gaz., 164, 1817.
Tondagame.— Maumee treaty (1819) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 203, 1873 (chief’s name).

Salem

A village of the Moravian Delawares, established in 1781 on the west bank of Tuscarawas River, 11 m. southwest of Port Washington, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The Indians were driven out during the Revolution but returned after the war. The mission was abandoned in 1781. (J. M.)

Salt Lick

A village, probably of the Delawares, on Mahoning cr., near Warren, Trumbull co., Ohio, about 1760 (Croghan (1760) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th south, IX, 289, 1871). The “old salt works ” here were operated by the whites before the survey of the east part of the Western Reserve in 1796. In 1800 the chief of the settlement, “Captain George,” was killed during a fight with settlers (Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, II, 659, 1896).

Sandusky

(Huron: Otsaandosti, ‘cool water’). Two Wyandot villages formerly in Ohio; the one, sometimes called Lower Sandusky, was on the site of the present Sandusky, Erie co., and was settled in 1751 by a party of Hurons from near Detroit. The other village, commonly known as Upper Sandusky, was near the present town of that name, in Wyandot co.

• Ostandousket.— Doc. of 1748 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., X, 151. 1858.
• Sandesque. — Boisherbert (1747) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,X, 84, 1868.
• Sandoske. — Doc. of 1747, ibid., 114.
• Sandosket. — Doc of 1748, ibid., 138.
• Sandoski. — Crepy Map, ca. 1755.
• Sandosky. — Johnson (1763) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VII, 583, 1856 (the fort).
• Sandouski. — Homann Heirs’ map, 1756.
• Sandousky. — Johnson (1763) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VII, 526, 1856 (the fort).
• Sanduskee. — La Galissoniere (1748), ibid., X, 182, 1858.
• Sanduski. — Watts (1763) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th south, IX, 483, 1871.
• Sanduskians. — Clark (1782) in Butterfield, Washington-Irvine Corr., 402, 1882.
• San¬ dusky. — Johnson (1763) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., VII, 533, 1856.
• St ‘d’osquet. — French Rep. (1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th south, IX, 428, 1871.
• St.Douskie.— Writer of 1782 in Butterfield, Washington-Irvine Corr., 375, 1882.

Sawcunk

(Delaware: Sdkunk, ‘at the mouth (of a stream).’ A former important village on the north bank of Ohio River near the mouth of Beaver Creek, about the site of the present Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. It was a fur-trading station of note, and after the establishment of Ft Duquesne the French erected houses there for the Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo inhabitants. Sawcunk was the home of Shingass, noted for his hostility toward the frontier settlements. It was abandoned when the English took Ft Duquesne in 1758.

• Beaver Creek. — Weiser (1748) quoted by Rupp, West. Penn., app., 14, 1846.
• Saccung. — Post (1758) quoted by Proud, Penn., II, app., 124, 1798.
• Sackung. — Ibid., 122.
• Sacunck, — Ibid., 92.
• Sankonk.— Post (1758) quoted by Rupp, op. cit., app., 81.
• Sawcung. — Post quoted by Proud, op. cit., app., 105, 1798.
• Sawcunk. — Ibid., 80.
• Sawkunck. — Post quoted by Rupp, op. cit., app., 96.
• Sawkung. — Ibid., 106.
• Sawkunk. — Ibid., 87.
• Shingas’s Old Town. — Thwaites, Early Western Trav., I. 26, note, 1904.
• Sohkon. — Ibid.
• Soh’koon.— Alden (1834) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d south, VI, 145, 1837.
• St. Dusky. — Ibid.

Schoenbrunn

(Ger. : ‘beautiful spring’). A Moravian town, of Munsee Indians, situated about 2 miles below the site of New Philadelphia, Ohio. Zeisberger went from the station (Friedensstadt), on Beaver River, Pennsylvania, to Tuscarawas River, where the three stations of Schoenbrunn, Gnadenhuetten, and Salem were established. The Moravian Indians moved from the Beaver to these villages in 1773. The first meetinghouse and schoolhouse in the present state of Ohio were built at this station, which was also the birthplace of the first white child born within the state. The Indian village was a prosperous settlement. The Revolution brought these villages on the line between the British at Detroit and the Americans at Ft Pitt. In Aug. 1781 De Peyster, the commander at Detroit, becoming convinced that these Indians -were giving information of the British movements, sent Capt. Matthew Elliott with a party of Wyandot, Delawares, and Shawnee, and a small band of French-Canadians, to remove these Indians to Sandusky, a task which they performed with great harshness, the Indians being robbed of nearly everything they had. When the Moravians were massacred at Gnadenhuetten (q. v.) in Mar. 1782, the village at Schoenbrunn was burned by the same troop of Pennsylvanians under Col. Williamson. There was also a small settlement on the opposite side of the river called New Schoenbrunn, which was established in 1779 and destroyed in 1782. Consult Loskiel, Hist. Missions, pt. 3, 177-182, 1794; Butterfield, Washington-Irvine Corr., 100-102, 1882; Archives Pa., IX, 523-525,1854. (G. P. D.)

• Schoenbrunn. — Loskiel, Hist. Miss. United Breth., pt. 3, 75, 1794.
• Schonbrunn. — Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, II, 691, 1896.
• Shoenbrun. — Harris, Tour, 134, 1805.
• Weelhick Thuppek. — Connolley, Heckewelder’s Narr., 233, 1907 (Delaware translation of German name).

Scoutash’s Town

A former Mingo or Shawnee village, named after a chief, near Lewistown, Logan County, Ohio, on a tract ceded by treaty of July 20, 1831, when the occupants removed to Indian Territory.

• Scoutashs town. — Maumee treaty, Sept. 29, 1817, in U. S. Ind. Treat., Kappler ed., II, 105, 1903.

Seneca Town

A former village of Mingos, occupied by the remnant of Logan’s band, situated on the east side of Sandusky River, in Seneca co., Ohio, probably opposite Ft Seneca, established during the war of 1812. It was on a tract of 40,000 acres in Seneca and Sandusky counties, 30,000 acres of which were granted the “Senecas of Sandusky,” so called, by treaty of Sept, 29, 1817, and 10,000 acres by treaty of Sept. 17, 1818. By treaty of Feb. 28, 1831, these Indians ceded their Ohio lands to the United States and removed to the Neosho River, Indian Territory.

Snakestown

A former village, perhaps of the Delawares, on Muskingum River, Ohio, in 1774. — McKee (1774) quoted by Rupp, W. Penn., app., 211, 1846.

Sonnioto

A former Shawnee village at the mouth of Scioto River, Ohio; perhaps the same as Lowertown.

• Scioto. — Rafinesque’ in Marshall, Ky., I. introd., 31, 1824.
• Sinhioto. — Bonndcamps (1749) in Jesuit Relations, LXIX, 177, 1900.
• Sonnioto. — Doc. of 1748 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., x, 138, 1858.
• Souyoto.— Vaudreuil (1760), ibid., 1094.
• St. Yotoc.— Thwaites in Jesuit Relations, LXIX, 298, 1900 (a French form).

Three Legs Town

A former Delaware village, taking its name from a chief, situated on the east bank of Muskingum River, a few miles south of the mouth of the Tuscarawas, in Coshocton County, Ohio. The settlement was seemingly abandoned prior to Bouquet’s expedition in 1764, although a place on the river was known as Three Legs many years later.

• Legs. — Esnauts and Rapilly map, 1777.
• Three Legs. — Evans, Pedestrious Tour, 160, 1819.
• Three Legs Old Town. — Hutchins, map in Smith, Bouquet Exped., 1766.

Tom’s Town

A former settlement of the Delawares on Scioto River, a short distance below the present Chillicothe, and not far from the mouth of Paint Creek, Ohio. In 1750 it contained five or six families. (G. P. D.)

• Harrickintoms. — Darlington, Gist’s Jour. (1750), 42, 1893.
• Hurricane Toms. — Archives of Pa., 2d south, maps, appendix.
• Toms Town. — Hutchins map in Smith, Bouquet Exped., 1766.

Tullihas

A village situated in 1755 on the west branch of Muskingum River, Ohio, about 20 miles above the forks, and occupied by Delawares, Mahican, and Caughnawaga. — Smith (1799) quoted by Drake, Trag. Wild., 185, 1841.

Tushquegan

An Ottawa village, taking its name from the chief, who was also known as McCarty, that formerly existed on the south bank of Maumee River, opposite Toledo, Ohio. The reservation was sold in 1833.

• M’Carty’s village. — Maumee treaty (1819) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 205, 1873.
• Tushquegan. — Ibid.

Wakatomica

The name of two Shawnee towns in Ohio about the Revolutionary period, one being possibly the successor and continuation of the other. (1) One, apparently the earlier, was one of a group of two or more towns, occupied chiefly by Shawnee, situated on the Muskingum, below the junction of the Walhonding and below the present Coshocton, Coshocton County. It was visited by the missionary Zeisberger in 1772 and with another of the group was destroyed by the Americans under Col. McDonald in 1774 and not thereafter rebuilt, the Shawnee removing to the Scioto and the Miami. (2) The other of the same name, possibly built by refugees from the first, was situated, according to former agent Johnston, on the headwaters of Mad River, just below the present Zanesfield in Logan County, within the Greenville treaty cession of 1795. It was sometimes known also as the Upper Shawnee village, because it was the highest of those on the waters of the Miami. (J. M.)

• Waccotomica. — Connelley in Heckewelder, Narr (1820), Connelley repr., 241, note, 1907.
• Wachatawmaha. — Bouquet (1764) in Rupp, W. Penn., app., 155, 1846.
• Waehatomakak. — Connelley in Heckewelder, op. cit., 241, note.
• Wagetomica.— Ibid.
• Waghatamagy. — Bouquet (1764) in Rupp, op. cit., 157.
• Waghhatawmaky. — Ibid., 165.
• Wakatamake. — Smith, Bouquet Exped., 16, 1766.
• Wakatameki, — Heckewelder, op. cit., 245.
• Wakatomaca. — Connelley in Heckewelder, op. cit., 253, note.
• Wakatomica. — Butterfield, Washington Irvine Corr., 5, 1882.
• Wakautamike. — Smith, op. cit., 18.
• Waketameki. — Heckewelder, op. cit., 241.
• Waketummakie. — McKee (1774) in Rupp, W. Penn., app., 211, 1846.
• Wakitamiki. — Connelley in Heckewelder, op. cit., 241, note.
• Wankatamikee. — La Tour map, 1784 (misprint).
• Wapatomaca.— Con¬ nelley in Heckewelder, op. cit,, 263, note.
• Wapatomica. — Butterfield, op. cit., 332.
• Wappatomiea.— Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, 150, 1851.
• Waughcotomoco.— Connelley in Heckewelder, op. cit., 241.
• Waukatamike. — Smith, Bouquet Exped., 67, 1766.
• Waukataumikee. — Hutchins, map, ibid.
• Waukatomike. — Ibid.

Wapakoneta

(Wa-pa-ko-rie’-ta, ‘white jacket ’) . A Shawnee village, named from a chief, on Auglaize River, on the site of the present Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio. The Shawnee settled there by consent of the Miami, after losing their country on the Scioto by the treaty of Greenville in 1795. They occupied it as their principal village until 1831, when they sold their reservation and removed to the West. It was the residence of Logan. (J. M.)

• Logan’s village. — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. V, 134, 1848.
• Wapaghkanetta. — -Johnston quoted by Brown, W. Gaz., 287, 1817.
• Wapaghkonetta. — Johnston, Ibid., 326.
• Wapahkonetta. — Sen. Doc. 137, 29th Cong., 1st sess., 1, 1846.
• Wapakanotta. — Drake Tecumseh, 17, 1852.
• Wapakonakunge. — Gatschet inf’n, 1903 (‘where Wapakoneta lived’: Miami name).
• Wapauckanata. — Harrison (1814) quoted by Drake, Tecumseh, 159, 1852.
• Wapaughkonetta.— St Marys treaty (1817) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 1034, 1873.
• Wapaughkonnetta. — W. H Shawnee in Gulf States Hist. Mag., I, 415, 1903.
• Wapoghoognata — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. v, 134, 1848.
• Wappaukenata. — Brown, W. Gaz., 272, 1817.
• Warpicanata. — Woodward, Reminisc., 36, 1859.
• Wauphauthawonaukee. — McKenney and Hall, Ind Tribes, III, 111, 1854.

Waugau

A former Ottawa village, named from the chief, near the mouth of Maumee River in Lucas County, Ohio, on a reservation sold in 1833.

• Wau-gan.- Maumee treaty (1833) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 597, 1873 (misprint).
• Waugau. — Detroit treaty (1807), ibid., 194.

White-eyes Village

A Delaware village, named from the chief, that formerly existed at the site of Duncan’s Falls, 9 miles below Zanesville, in Muskingum County, Ohio.

• Old Indian village. — Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., pi. clvi, 1899.
• Old Town.— Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, II 146, 1896.
• Old Town village.— Ibid.
• White-eyes. — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. V, 28, 1848.

White Woman’s Town

A former Dela¬ ware village near the junction of the Walhonding and the Willbuck, about 7 miles northwest of the forks of the Muskingum, in the present Coshocton County, Ohio. The settlement was so named because a white girl, Mary Harris, who had been captured by the French Indians about the year 1710 and later became the wife of Eagle Feather, made the place her home at least as early as 1750. The Walhonding River was known as White Woman’s river, or White Woman’s creek. Another white wife of Eagle Feather was known as The Newcomer, from whom Newcomerstown (q. v.) received its name.

• Femmes blanches. — Esnauts and Rapilly map, 1777.
• White Womans. — Lattre map, 1784.

Will’s Town

A Delaware village on the east bank of Muskingum River, at the mouth of Wills Creek, in Muskingum County, Ohio. It was destroyed by the Americans in 1782.

• Will’s Town. — Hutchins in Smith, Bouquet Exped., map, 1766.
• Wils T. — La Tour map, 1784.

Wolf Rapids

An Ottawa village on Maumee River, Ohio, about the boundary of Wood and Henry counties, on a tract sold in 1831. — Treaty of 1831 in U. S. Ind. Treat., 591, 1873.

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2. Brodhead in Penn. Archives, xii, 177, 1856[↩]
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