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By dialect, tradition, and political affiliation the Shawnees were 

 a northern tribe who moved south at no very remote period. Their 

 language, according to the Moravian missionaries, was closer to the 

 Mohegan than to the Delaware, Nanticoke, or other Southern Algon- 

 kin dialects. By tradition they at one time were a branch of the 

 Mohegans on the Hudson, and it was to them that they returned when 

 driven from their towns in Carolina and on the Tennessee river. The 

 name of their principal clan, the Pequa or Pick-e-weu, is said by 

 Heckewelder to be the same as that of the Pequods, of Connecticut, 

 and he relates that the Mohegans told him that the two were of the 

 same family. 



If we can depend upon this evidence, and there is no reason why 

 it should be rejected, the " Pre-historic Shawnees" are to be looked 

 for in New York and New England. I have no idea whether this 

 will correspond with Professor Thomas' views, but I should be 

 gratified to hear that we had reached identical conclusions from in- 

 dependent study of the subject. 



The four clans of the Shawnees were assembled in Ohio, but in 

 Pennsylvania I have not found evidence of any but the Pequas, who 

 lived in the valley that still bears their name in Lancaster county. 

 Their state of culture was nowise ahead of that of the Delawares. 

 They had one clan named Chilicothe, and three of their settlements 

 in Ohio bore this name, but while there they had not the slightest 

 knowledge or tradition about the ancient earthworks, as we are as- 

 sured by the Rev. David Jones, who went out to teach them Christian- 

 ity in 1772, and who, I think, is the earliest writer who calls 

 attention to the remarkable remains in Southern Ohio. 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas read a paper entitled "Prehistoric Shawnes, 

 from Mound Testimony." 



Before reading his paper. Prof. Thomas said, referruig to the pre- 

 ceding paper, that he had recently written a letter with a view to 

 procuring an exploration of Pontotoc county, Miss., without any 

 positive knowledge that ancient remains existed there, and that the 

 paper of Mr. Pollard was in verification of the speaker's assumption 

 that such remains would be found in that vicinity. 



Mr. C. C. RoYCE, at the request of the Society, read an extract 

 from a former paper of his on the origin of the " Shawnees." 



President Powell said that the papers read before the Society 

 during the past two years seemed to establish the fact that the 



