318 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
that the Shawnees of Carolina, he was told, had killed several Christians; whereupon 
the government of that province had raised the said Flat Head Indians, and joined 
some Christians to them, besieged, and have taken, as it is thought, the said Shawnee 
town. 1 
It is probable that the numbers of those Carolina Shawnee who had 
migrated to Pennsylvania were constantly swollen. In 1715; as a 
result of the Yamasee war, a part of the Shawnee on Savannah River 
moved to the Chattahoochee, settling apparently near where Fort 
Games is now located. The rest either remained in their old towns 
imtil about 1 73 1 or began moving north immediately. All we know 
with certainty is that they were in Pennsylvania by October of the 
latter year, as the following testimony demonstrates: 
On October 29, 1731, two traders, named Jonah Davenport and 
James Le Tort, furnished detailed information to the governor of 
Pennsylvania regarding the number of Indians in the Alleghany 
country, and this testimony contains the following item: 
Assiwikales: 50 families; lately from S. Carolina to Ptowmack, and from thence 
thither; making 100 men. Aqueloma, their chief, true to the English. 2 
On an earlier page he enumerates these people as if they were 
distinct from the Shawnee. As a matter of fact they were the prin- 
cipal Shawnee division in the south, and according to recent informa- 
tion gathered by Doctor Michelson would seem to have been con- 
sidered first in rank. 
In order to reach Pennsylvania the Piqua seem, as Hanna suggests, 
to have ascended the Ohio or Cumberland and then to have crossed 
to the headwaters of the Potomac by "the Virginia Valley, the 
Kanawha, or the Youghiogheny," 3 Part of them occupied towns 
on the upper course of the Potomac for a time, while the remainder 
kept on eastward to the Susquehanna. As these upper Potomac 
towns appear to be apart from and to one side of the Shawnee towns 
reported near Winchester, Va., the latter may have marked a stage 
in the northward movement of the Carolina Shawnee. The folio whig 
information regarding the Winchester settlements is contained in 
Kercheval's History of the Valley of Virginia: 
The Shawnee tribe, it is well known, were settled about the neighborhood of Win- 
chester. What are called the "Shawnee cabins" and "Shawnee springs" immediately 
adjoining the town is well known. It is also equally certain that this tribe had a con- 
siderable village, on Babb's marsh, some three or four miles northwest of Winchester. 4 
Of course, which band of Shawnee was actually settled here can 
not as yet be demonstrated. Those who went to the Chattahoochee 
probably remained there very few years, since we soon hear of them 
among the Upper Creeks. Another band of Shawnee came from the 
» Hanna, The Wilderness Trail, I, pp. 150-151; » Ibid., p. 158. 
Day, Hist. Coll. State of Pa., p. 391. * Kercheval, Hist. Val. of Va., p. 58. 
2 Hanna, The Wilderness Trail, i, p. 296. 
