696 MpUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Avell understood at that time, we are justified in believing that the locali- 

 ties are correctly named, as it is not likely such avast claim would have 

 been based ou bouudaries determined by imaginary places. These 

 were real and given as correctly as tlie information then obtainable 

 would admit of. The location of the " ancient Shawanese town" is 

 pretty definitely fixed, as it is on Saline river, above where the line 

 crosses, and about four leagues from the Oliio, and was at that time, 

 1773, known as the Ancient Shawnese town. The Shawnee village of 

 modern times was on the banks of the Ohio where the city named after 

 them now stands, nor was it ancient at the making of the aforesaid 

 deed, as it was in its ijrime in 180(5, when visited by Ashe.' It is also 

 worthy of notice that the old town was not included iu the bounds 

 given, while the land on which the latter stood was. 



The next point is to show that the Shawnees were in the habit of 

 making salt. Collins, in his History of Kentucky,^ gives an account 

 of the capture and adventures of Mrs. Mary Ingals, the first white 

 woman kncjwn to have visited Kentucky. In this narrative occurs the 

 following statement : 



The tii'st white woman iu Kentucky was Mrs. Mary Ingals, nee I>raj)or, who in 

 1756 with lier two little boys, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Draper, and others, was tiikeii 

 prisoner hy tlie Shawanee Indians from her home ou the top of the great Allegheny 

 ridge, iu Montgomery county, We.st Virginia. The eai>tives were taken down the 

 Kanawha to the salt region and, after a few days spent iu making salt, to the Indian 

 village at the mouth of the .Scioto river. 



By the treaty of Fort Wayne, June 7, 180.), proclaimed December 26, 

 1803, between the Delawares, Shawnees and other tribes, and the United 

 States, it was agreed that in consideration of the relin(inishmentof title 

 to " the great salt spring upon the saline creek which falls into the 

 Ohio below the mouth of the Wabash, with a quantity of land sur- 

 rounding it, not exceeding 4 miles square, the United States * * * 

 hereby engage to deliver yearly and every year, for the use of said In- 

 dians, a quantity of salt not exceeding 150 bushels.^ 



Another very significant fact in this connection is that fragments of 

 large earthen vessels similar iu character to those found in Gallatin 

 county, Illinois, have also been found in connection with the stone 

 graves of Cumberland valley, the imjiressions made by the textile 

 fabrics showing the same stitches as the former. Another place where 

 pottery of the same kind has been found is about the salt lick near St. 

 Genevieve, Mo., a section inhabited for a time by Shawnees and Dela- 

 wares.'' 



Some graves of this type have been found in Washington county, 

 Maryland.'^ History informs us that there were two Shawnee settle- 

 ments in this region, one in the adjoining county of Maryland (Alle- 

 ghany) and another in the neighborhood of Winchester, Virginia.^ 



' Travels in America, 1808. j). 2G9. ■> Koyce in American Antiq.. Vol. in, pp. I8S-9. 



2 Vol. n (1874), p. ari. ' Smithsonian Rep., 1832, p. 797. 



'' Treaties of U. S. with Indian Trilies, ed. 1873, '• Koyce in American Antiq., Vol. III. p. 186; Vir- 



p. 370. giuia State Papers. 1. p. 03. 



