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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 
scalped, near the mouth of Congress creek, about a mile from 
the garrison. Benoni Huriburt, 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. 
These were the principal losses the settlement at Belpre 
experienced from the Indians, which may be called almost 
miraculous, when we consider their exposed situation, being 
the frontier settlement, and entirely open for several years to 
the numerous tribes of Indians who inhabited the waters of 
the Scioto and Muskingum rivers. The settlement at New- 
bury was harassed considerably by the depredations of the 
Indians. One woman and two children were killed, and a 
child she had in her 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 Indians escaped without loss, al- 
though pursuit was instantly made. 
In the year 1790, settlements were begun at the forks of 
Duck creek, at Waterford, on the Muskingum river, about 
20 miles above Marietta, at the mouth of Meigs’s creek, and 
at Big Bottom 35 miles up the Muskingum; another was 
commenced at Wolf creek, near the forks; these settle- 
ments were all of them on a tract of land called the Donation 
Lands, containing 100,000 acres, in lots of 100 acres, which 
lots were given to any person who would make an actual set- 
tlement thereon. ‘These lands were first given by the Ohio 
Company, but were afterwards assumed by 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 creck, 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 
