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Wabash Land Companies. The deed pi-eseiited was (hitcd July 20, 1773, 

 and recorded at Kaskaskhi, September 2, 1773. In tliis mention is 

 made of the "ancient Shawnee town " on Saline Creek, the exact locality 

 of the stone graves and salt-kettle pottery. The modern Indian village 

 at Shawueetown on the Ohio River had not then come into existence, 

 and was bnt in its prime in 1800, when visited l)y Thomas Ashe.^ 



As proof that the people of this tribe were in the habit of making 

 salt the following evidence is in-esented: Collins, in his "History of 

 Kentncky,"^ gives an account of the capture and adventnres of Mrs. 

 Mary Ingals, the first white woman known to have visited Kentucky. 

 In this narrative occurs the following statement: 



The lir.st white womau iu Kcutucky was Mrs. Mary Injj;als, nee Draper, who, in 1756 

 with her two little boys, her sistcr-iu-law, Mrs. Draper, and others was taken pris- 

 oner by the Shawnee Indians, from her home on the top of the great Alh'gheny ridge, 

 in now Montgomery County, W. Va. The captives were taken down the Kanawha, 

 to the salt region, and, after a fciv dnjjs spent in maling salt, to the Indian village at 

 the mouth of Scioto River. 



By the treaty of Fort Wayne, June 7, 1803, between the Delawares, 

 Shawnees, and other tribes and the United States, it was agreed that 

 in consideration of the relinquishment of title to "the great salt spring- 

 u[)on the Saline Creek, which falls into the Ohio below the mouth of 

 the Wabash, with a <|uantity of laud surrounding it, not exceeding 4 

 miles square," the United States should deliver "yearly, and every year 

 for the use of said Indians, a quantity of salt not exceeding 150 bushels."^ 



Another very significant fact in this connection is that the fragments 

 of large earthen vessels similar in character to those found in Gallatin 

 County, 111., have also been found in connection with the stone graves 

 of the Cumberland Valley, and, furthermore, the impressions made by 

 the textile fabrics show the same stitches as do the former. Another 

 place where pottery of the same kind has been found is about th(^s'^1^ 

 lick near Saint Genevieve, Mo., a section inhabited for a time by" 

 Shawnees and Delawares.^ 



Stone graves have been found in Washington County, Md.'* History 

 informs us that there were two Shawnee settlements in this region, one y* 

 in the adjoining county of Maryland (Allegany), and another in the 

 neighborhood of Winchester, Va.^ 



Mr. W. M. Taylor'' mentions some stone graves^sOf the t.ypC/ under 

 consideration as found on the Mahoning Iliver, in Pe>nnsylvp<rtia. An 



' Travels in America, 1808, p. 205. X/'^ 



2 Vol. 2, p. .55. 



^Treaties of United States with Indian tribes, p. 97. 



■*C. C. Royce in American Antiquarian, vol. 3, 1881, pp. 188, 189. 



^Smithsonian Report for 1882 (1884), p. 797. 



"C. C. Royeo in American Anti(iuarian, vol. 3, 1881, p. 18(1. Virginia State Papers, 

 l,p.G3. 



' Smithsonian Report for 1877, p. :!07. Mentions only known instance of mound with 

 Delaware village. 



