Note 59 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 2)
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The modern name is Tonawanda Creek. It rises near the northern boundary of Wyoming County, New-York, and enters Niagara River ten miles north of Buffalo. The Indian village was part of a reservation containing seventy square miles retained by the Seneca, when in 1797 they sold their lands to the Holland Company.—Ed.