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Ohio, in 1770.* According to the “Journal of General [Richard] Butler,” 
buffaloes were killed by his party at the mouth of Big Sandy Creek, in Octo- 
ber, 1785, and also on Buffalo Lick Creek and Licking Creek the same 
year,t at which time the buffaloes were there still quite abundant. 
“In 1791,’ says Mr. Graham in one of his letters to me (dated “ Cincin- 
nati, April 11, 1876”), “General Massie laid out the town of Manchester in 
the Virginia Military District of Ohio, about thirty-five miles from Cincinnati. 
This was the first settlement in the Virginia Military District. The woods 
in the neighborhood supplied game, —deer, elks, buffaloes, bears, and tur- 
keys, — while the river furnished a variety of excellent fish. In 1794 and 
1795 McArthurf was settling a plan for his winter operations, when he fell in 
with George Hardick, an experienced hunter and trapper, who was never at. 
ease but when he was ranging through the solitary woods. Agreeing to go 
into partnership for a winter hunt, they made a light canoe, procured ammu- 
nition and beaver-traps, and set off from Manchester, travelling down the 
Ohio River to the mouth of the Kentucky River, thence up the Kentucky 
far above the settlements. Game of every description was found in abun- 
dance; deer and buffalo were killed for their hides and tallow. Beaver and 
otter were the principal game pursued, and were caught in great numbers. 
They went up the river as far as they could find water to float their canoe, 
and spent the winter in the spurs of the Cumberland Mountains, more than 
a hundred miles from the habitations of civilized men,’ returning in spring 
by the same route to Manchester. 
“The last reliable account of killing buffalo,’ says Mr. Graham, in the 
same letter, “is taken from the Lacross manuscripts, and partly from tra- 
dition from the lips of the children and grandchildren of those who were 
present. Of the French who settled at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1790, but one 
person ever killed a buffalo. This man’s name was Duteil. He was out 
hunting in the summer of 1795, about two miles west from Gallipolis, and 
saw a herd of buffaloes. He fired without aiming at any particular one, and 
luckily killed a large one. He was so elated with this feat that without stop- 
ping to examine the animal he ran as fast as he could to the town, and, 
having announced his luck, came back, followed by the entire body of colo- 
nists, men, women, and children. They quickly formed a procession, with 
* Olden Time, pp. 426, 427. 
+ Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 447, 450, 453, 456, 458, 497. 
£ “*McDonald’s Sketches,’ published in Cincinnati, in 1838, by E. Morgan, gives the life of General 
McArthur.” 
