Note 7 — INDIAN OCCUPATION OF OHIO.

Gist, however, found, in 1750, the town on Whitewoman Creek, called Muskingum, “inhabited by Wyandots” and containing about one hundred families. This was undoubtedly an isolated government. As late as 1791, the Indian war being in progress, the different tribes were massed in what is now the northwestern part of the State, and their old abiding places, their favorite regions, were of course deserted. Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, Mingoes, Senecas, Chippewas, and others, were upon the Maumee and its tributaries.