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of this band of " Ontouagannha " getting into trouble with 

 their neighbors, came up to Pennsylvania with the consent 

 of the Susquehannocks, and settled at Conestoga in 1698. 

 Four years earlier a few of this band had, at the request of 

 the " Minsis," been allowed to settle on the Delaware River 

 among the latter. Other straggling parties joined these 

 bands from time to time, rendering the Shawnees at last 

 quite numerous and powerful in Pennsylvania. 



John Senex's map of North America, of 1710, indicates 

 villages of " Chaouenons " on the headwaters of South Caro- 

 lina, but apparently locates the main body along the upper 

 waters of the Tennessee River. 



" Moll's " map of 1720 does not indicate the presence of 

 any Chaouanons on the Tennessee River, but covers their 

 former territory with " Charakeys." This bears out the 

 story of the French trader mentioned in Ramsey's Tennes- 

 see, who was among the Shawnees on Cumberland River, in 

 1714, and says that about this time they were expelled by 

 the Cherokees and Chickasaws. On this map of Moll's is 

 found, at the mouth of the Cumberland (or Sault) River, the 

 words " Savannah Old Settlement," indicating probable 

 abandonment, a few years prior, in their gradual withdrawal 

 to the north side of the Ohio River. 



Prior to 1714, a band of " Chaouanons," probably wander- 

 ers from the Cumberland and Tennessee country, lived for 

 a short time within two leagues of the fort at Mobile, Ala. 



Another band, likely an offshoot from the South Carolina 

 faction, found a home at Oldtown, Md., a few miles below 

 Cumberland, and was doubtless the band with whom William 

 Penn concluded a treaty, in 1701 at Philadelphia. 



Between the ejection of the Shawnees from the Cumber- 

 land and Tennessee valleys and the middle of the eighteenth 

 century, their appearance in history is rare. They doubtless 

 occupied portions of Ohio and Indiana. Emanuel Bowen's 

 map, published in 1752, locates a " village de Chouanons " on 

 the north side of the Ohio River, midway between the 

 mouths of the Kanawha and Scioto. That branch of the 



