Note 1226 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

Thomson, Bibliog. of Ohio, no. 1,099; Carter-Brown, iii. 1,092. The French posts north of the Ohio in 1755, according to the Present State of North America, published that year in London, were Le Bœuf and Venango (on French Creek), Duquesne, Sandusky, Miamis, St. Joseph’s (near Lake Michigan), Pontchartrain (Detroit), Michilmackinac, Fox River (Green Bay), Crèvecœur and Fort St. Louis (on the Illinois), Vincennes, Cahokia, Kaskaskia, and at the mouths of the Wabash, Ohio, and Missouri. A portion of Gov. Pownall’s map, showing the location of the Indian villages and portages of the Ohio region, is given in fac-simile in Penna. Archives, 2d ser., ii. Cf. map in London Mag., June, 1754; Kitchin’s map of Virginia in Ibid., Nov., 1761; and his map of the French settlements in Ibid., Dec., 1747.