Notes on Ohio. 155 
men they had amongst them. He left a wife and several 
children, Captain King was shot while chopping, a short 
distance from the garrison; he left a wife and two children, 
and was a native of Rhode Island. Jonas Davis was shot and 
sealped, near the mouth of Congress creek, about a mile from 
the garrison. Benoni Hurlburt, one of the spies, was shot, 
at the mouth of the Little Hockhocking, as he was returning 
_ from a scout, in the spring of 1791. 
hese were the principal losses the mens an at Belpre 
experienced from the Indians, which may be called almost 
miraculous, when we consider their exposed i being 
the frontier settlement, ms seniurely open for several years to 
the numerous tribes of indians who inhabited the waters of 
the Scioto and kia. rivers. © The settlement at New- 
ury was parser Sonederably by the depredations of -the 
Indians. -One woman and.two children .were killed, and a 
child she had in je arms was tomahawked, but afterwards 
recovered of its wounds, as they were going to a party of 
men who were at work in a field, a short distance 
from the garrison. The ladians Saapee without loss, al- 
though pursuit was instantly.m 
In the year 1790, i were begun at the forks-of 
Duck creek, at Waterford, on the Muskingum river, about 
miles above Marietta, at the mouth of Meigs’ s creek, and 
at Big Bottom 35 miles up the Muskingum ; another was 
wands containing 100,000 acres, in lots of 100 acres, which 
lots were given to any person who would make an acttal set- 
tlement thereon. These lands were first given by the Ohio 
Company, but were afterwards assumed ae Congress, and 
other lands given to the Company in exchange. This tract 
lies a few miles north of the settlement at Marietta, and ex- 
tends east and west across the waters of Duck creek, Musk- 
ingum River, Olive Green creek, Meigs’s creek, and Wolf 
creek, affording many eligible situations for settlements. At 
the close of the year 1790, it was found that these several 
settlements, could muster four hundred and forty-seven men ; 
one hundred and three of which had families. - The number 
of children I have not been able to learn. The settlers were 
nearly all from the New England states, and many of them 
young men, without families. . The settlement at Big Bottom 
was destroyed by the Indians, January 2, 1791. Fourteen 
