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Logan, Indian Chief, family at- tacked, 215; starts on War Path, 217; famous speech, 222. Logan, Benjamin, a Kentucky colonel. 325; raids Indians, 335. "Log Rolling," described, 235. Lomas Lumsford, 191.
Losantiville, afterward Cincin- nati, 339.
Losses of the forces on both sides in Indian wars, 179, 180. Louisburg captured, 151.
Louisiana, named, 44; colony in, described, 61 et seq .; Inten- dant's business in, 61; Indians threaten, 63; starvation in, 63; Crozat in charge of, 64; popu- lation of, 66, 166; state of, 55, 115; trade in, 167; Spain ac- quires, 162; French home life in, 241; Napoleon secures, 384 et seq: Americans to buy, 390; purchased by Americans, 394; formal work of transfer, 396, 397.
Louisville, La Salle reaches, 10; founded, 207; fort at, 321.
Louis XIV, acquires pre-emption rights in Miss. Valley, 44; smiles on La Salle, 45, 46.
Louis XV. inherits bankrupt nation, 70.
Luzerne, French envoy sent to support Spanish claim, 358.
Lyman, General Phineas, at Natchez, 205; land grant to, 207. Lynch law on Frontier, 203, 211. Lythe, Rev. John, at primitive Legislature, 244.
Madison, James, indicates a salutary precedent, 359; letter to Washington, 386.
Mailed fist, 290.
Marietta, Ohio, Indian mound at, 85; built. 337.
Marbois, Barbe, notes condi-
tions in America, 391; conducts negotiations for sale of Louis- iana, 394.
Marin, Pierre Paul, Sieur de, leads expedition, 134, 135. Marin, Iberville's ship, 53.
Marquette, Father, claims as a discoverer considered, 15, et seq .; Joutel belittles, 20; hig account of Joliet's expedition, 24; at St. Ignace, 16.
Martin's Station, Ky., taken, 290.
Mascoso, Luis de, leads rem- nants of De Soto's band, 161. Mason, George, approves Clark's expedition to the Il- linois, 268.
Massacre Island, named, 54.
Matagorda Bay, supposed land- ing place of La Salle, 46; fort raided by Spanish, 49.
Maurepas, Lake named, 55.
Maurepas, a French statesman and writer, 56.
Mayo, Col. William, surveyor, 124.
Maysville, Ky., 326. McAfee, James, George and Robert, 208.
McConnel, brings news of war, 246; killed, 263.
McCulloch, Major Samuel, at Wheeling, 261.
McGary, Mrs., one of women at Boonesborough, 240.
McGarry, Major Hugh, bully, at Blue Licks, 310.
McGillivry, Alexander, leads Indians, 363.
McKee, Alexander, renegade, 305; store destroyed, 352.
Medicine men, 95.
Memphis, Tenn., fort at, 373.
Mercier, Father Francois le, leads expedition to Iroquois country, 8.
Meskousing, now Wisconsin river, 17.
Miami, Mich., La Salle's fort in, 36 Abnekis flee to, 40; a British fort on Maumee River, 347.
Michigan, region west of visited by Nicolet, 4; La Salle sends men to, 31.
Milhet, John and Joseph, ar- rested, 165.
Mingo Bottom, Ohio, raiders gather at, 299.
Minor, Don Stephen, at Nat- chez, 376; sneaks away, 377. Miro, Gov., Don Estevan, at New Orelans, 363; urges In- dians to war, 364; does not enthuse over American sub- jects, 370; transferred, 371.
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Mississippi Company, floated, 71; land granted to, 112; begins work, 103; leaves Louisiana, 114. Mississippi Territory organized, 379; kind of people that went to, 380.
Mississippi River first seen, 1; the search for, 5, 7, 9, 14, 17; visited by Grosseilliers and Radisson, 7; first written men- tion by name, 8; discovered and described, 14; Indians on, 19, 21; boats on, 22; La Salle plants forts along, 31; Iber- ville finds, 54; De Soto raid
to, 157, et seq .; mouth dis- covered, 161; navigation free to British, 167; bids for settlers on lower, 205; closed to Brit- ish, 287-288; Spanish claim to, 358; Spanish close, 359; efforts to open, 362; Franklin's view of, 385.
Mississippi Valley, Marquette describes, 24; La Salle's plans to acquire, 37; claimed for France, 44; life in old valley, 55; Law's descriptions of, 71; French in during 18th Century, 125; English gain eastern watershed, 155; war losses in, 180; British life in, 184; s ttlers in lower, 207; prosperity in ac- cording to kind of people, 242, 322; explorations in, 337; Span- ish in, 363; movement to Ameri- canize, 370; Spain opens, 374; Americans get their own in, 377-378; France buys part of, 383; prosperity of in 1802, 388; purchased, 395-396; the Flag over all, 401.
Missouri, mines in, 68.
Missouri River, reached by Joli- et, 20; described, 20; small fort on, 63.
Mitchegamea, a village, 22.
Mobile Bay, visited, named and colonized, 60; traders go to New Orleans, 106. Spanish take, 289.
Money, Continental, 321.
Monroe, James, appointed to make treaty, 390; buys Louisi- ana, 394.
Monso, Indian chief, enemy of La Salle, 36.
Monsters on Mississippi, 16, 18, 20; whirl-pool, 21.
Montcalm, Gozon de Saint Ver- an, Louis Joseph, Marquis de, describes Indian doings, 149.
Montreal, Que., frontier post, 8. Morales, Don Juan Venturo, breaks treaty, 388.
Morgan, Col. George, gets Span- ish grant, 367.
Mooney, James, 198; meets In- dians, 219.
Morals, Indian, 93; French, 113, 114, 116.
Moravian Missionaries, deeds, 98; and Ohio Indians, 216; the story of, 293; human wolves among, 300; saw justice, 311.
Mounds, Indian, 85; saloon in one, 86.
Moyne, Charles le, 52.
Moyne, Father le, speech to Indians, 100.
Muskingum River, Ohio, Chris- tian settlements on, 294.
Napoleon, power in France, 38 .; idea of the Miss. Valley, 388; gets the true facts, 391; says the right thing, 392; and does it, 394; creates "a British rival," 393.
Nashborough, Tenn., govern- Nashville, Tenn., 68, 290. ment and life at, 291.
Natchez, Miss., (Rosalie) found- ed, 68, 113; wiped out by In- dians, 113; Gen. Lyman and families emigrate, to, 205; grants of land at, 207; garri- son at, 288; taken, 289, 359; struggle to hold, 369; Ellicott and Spanish at, 376; seized by citizens, 376; Spanish leave, American at last, 377.
Natchez Indians meet La Salle, 44; in a panic over storm, 59; see Indian summary, 76 et seq. Natchitoches, fort at, 68-69; colo- nists a., 103.
"Natural rights," 357.
Nau, Father, on "sea of bea- ver," 121.
Nautilus, ship's captain held, 348.
Neely, Alexander, goes home, 199.
Nemacolin, blazes trail, 190.
New Hampshire, adopts Consti- tution, 362.
New Madrid, Missouri, post at, 110; land grant at, 367.
New Orleans, La., founded, 72- 74; Law's colonists at, 104; Bienville af, 106; Ursuline Nuns at, 106; described by Sister Hochard, 107; trade freed, 114; ceded to Spain, by French, 155; transferred, 163; O'Reily at, 165; population. 166; ship load of flour at, 168; manners at, 170; smugglers in, 206; Jack- son at, 236; British ships seized at, 287; free to Americans by treaty. 374; customs receipts doubled, 382; Jefferson on, 386; ceded to U. S., 393; ceremonies of cession, 398.
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New York free of raids, 122.
Nicolet, Jean, Joins Champlain,
3; life among Indians, 3; ex- plores Lake Michigan region, 4, 5.
Nika, Indian companion of La Salle, murdered, 48.
Nolan, Philip, killed, 381.
North Carolina cedes lands to Congress, 361; resumes control, 362, adopts Constitution, 362. Oconee War, 363.
O'Fallon, Dr. James, in the Val- , ley, 370.
Ogden, Amos, land grant, 207.
Ohio Company, formed, 189 et seq .; absorbed, 195.
Ohio River, (La Belle Rivierre, Ouabouskigou), La Salle vis- its, 11; La Salle passes mouth on Miss., 21; road to forks of, 124; Valley claimed by Celor- on, 128; fort at forks of be- gun, 138; Wheeling head of deep water navigation, 204; 400 families down in 1773, 205; desperadoes along, 211; people in the valley, 224, 236, 321; dan- ger in, 322; slavery in, 337; north side opened to settlers, 353; type of people in, 380.
Old Britain, Indian chief, 129; at Piqua, or Pickawillany, 136; defeated and eaten, 132; for- gotten, 135.
O'Reilly, Don Alexandre, at New Orleans, 165; and Pollock, 168; sails away, 168.
Oswald, Richard, treaty maker, 331; far-sighted perhaps, 370.
Oswego, N. Y., founded, 122; captured, 151.
Ouabouskigou, see Ohio river.
Ouiatanon, Ind., now Lafayette, 111.
Overture, Toussainte l', at San Domingo, 384.
Ozarks, (mountains in Missouri), De Soto at, 160.
Pepin Lake, visited, 60.
Packet service established on the Ohio, 380.
Palatines. the buffer settle- ments of, 122.
Parma, Duke of, 385.
Pean, Chevalier, husband o f Madam Pean, 134; makes mon- ey, 154.
Patton, James, 191.
Pearl fisheries, sought, 56.
Pelican, d' Iberville's frigate, 52. Penalvert, Bishop, 170.
Penisseault, Maj. husband of Pean's mistress, 155.
Pennsylvania heard from, 53; quarrels among people, 130;
staked claims on New River, 197.
Pensacola, Fla., taken, 289.
Peoria Lake, reached by La Salle, 43.
Perier, Governor of Louisiana, burns Indians, 114.
Petit, Father le, in regard to Indians, 95.
Petroleum, spring described by priest, 8.
Peyster, Arent Schuyler de, at Detroit, 289.
.Picture Rocks, first seen by whites, 20; described by Mar- quette, 20; Joutel at, 20-21.
Pickawillany, or Piqua towns, 130; English win Indians at, 139; raided by Clark, 290.
Pineda, Don Alonzo de, at mouth of Miss., 161.
Pinchon, on Jefferson and U. S. people, 391.
Pinckney, Thomas, 373.
Pipe, Captain, in Crawford's raid, 305, 306.
Piquet, Abbe, causes raids, 101.
Pittsburg, region claimed b yt French, 137; Wayne at, 344.
Plet, Francois, lends La Salle money, 31.
Point Pleasant, (at the junction of Ohio River and Great Kana- wha), battle of, 218.
Poisson, Father du, describes people and country, 112.
Pollock, Oliver, flour deal, 168; a patriot martyr, 285; permitted to send supplies up Miss., 288; gives good advice, 288.
Pompadour, Madam, angered by Maurepas, 56; true ruler of France, 142; result of her rule, 155-156.
Ponchartrain, Lake, named, 55.
Pontiac, his war, 171, 179; meets Croghan, 192; makes peace, 193. Pope Lieut. Piercy S., with El- licott, 375.
Porcupine Policy, 385.
Portage City, Wis., on the old carry, 17.
Post, Charles Frederick, sent to Ohio Indians, 152; secures peace, 153.
Potomac River, cabin on head of, 123.
Potter, John, gives good advice, 151.
Poupet, W., merchant, arrested, 165.
Powell. Major J. W., best au- thority on Indian, 101.
Prairie du Rocher, Ill., 110.
Presbyterian Church, Doak's, 320, 362.
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Prescott, Gen. Richard, at New- port, 251.
Presqu' Isle, (Erie, Pa.), 134, 175. Prestonburg, Ky., site of one of Boone's camps, 198.
Price, Ensign, escapes Indians, 175.
Priestly, Dr. Joseph, hears from Jefferson, 391.
Prisoners burned at New Or- leans by French, 114.
Prudhomme, Pierre, lost a t Chickasaw Bluffs, 44.
Puritans, drive out Abenakis, 40.
Putnam, Gen. Rufus, home maker, 336.
Quakers, send Post to Indians, 152; and Pontiac's war, 173; and Moravian Indians, 294; saw justice, 311.
Quapaw, Indians, 22; their fate, 23; seen through a real estate dealer's eyes, 88; and De Soto's band, 161.
Quebec, founded by Champlain, 2; its trade, destroyed by Iro- quois, 6; La Salle goes to, 9; its traders cowardly, 10.
Quebec Bill, 196, 249.
Quindre, Daigniau de, attacks Boonesborough, 264.
Race Course at Shallow Ford Station, 244.
Radisson, Pierre Esprit, (with Grosseilliers), 5; final word as to, 400.
Randolph, Edmund, Sec. State, 373.
Ray, James, saves Harrodsburg, 262.
Raymond, Commandantof French post on Maumee, 131. Red Hawk murdered, 266.
Red River, fortified, 68.
Red Stone Old Fort, Pa., 326.
Renault, Philip Francois, founds Galena, Ill., 108.
Richebourg, Capt., profligate, 66.
Riddle's Station, Ky., taken, 290. Riflemen, Prime, 258; at King's
Mountain, 315-317; not desirable Spanish subjects, 370.
Rio Grande, Spanish name of Mississippi, 160.
Road, first wagon into the Great Valley, 139.
Robertson, James, goes over the range, 200; leads party to Wa- tauga Riv., 201; fights at Point Pleasant, 219; at Watauga, 257; goes into the woods, 290; sees need of settlement, 327; ready to join Spanish, 328; helps make Tennessee a state, 363; and the Spanish, 366.
Rocheblave, a French officer in the British service at Kaskas- kia, 270, 272.
Rogers, Major Robert, meets Pontiac, 173.
Rosalie, (Natchez) attacked, 113. Rosenthal, Baron de, (John Rose), on Crawford's raid, 306. St. Anthony, bribed by Henne- pin, 32.
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, arrests Connelly, 212; at Marietta, 338; to fight Indians, 339; sick and defeated, 340.
St. Francis River, 22.
St. Genevieve, Mo., founded, 111.
St. Joseph, Ind., Kankakee por- tage, 111.
St. Louis, Mo., founded, 162; riot at, 164; population 1769, 166; attacked, 318.
Saint-Lusson, Daumont de, sent to lake Superior after copper, 14; takes possession of the West, 14.
St. Phillippe, 110.
St. Pierre Legardeur de, at Le Boeuf, 136.
Salem, (Ohio) established, 294; Indians enticed, 300.
San Domingo, French in, 384.
Sandusky, Ohio, Moravians at, 298.
Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, trade post on, 123.
Sargent, Winthrop, to organize territory, 379.
Sault Saint Marie, taken into French possession, 14.
Sauville, Sieur de, 57.
Savannah, Ga., captured, 313. Scalps bought, 101; reward for, 151, 253; on Pittsburg streets, 303.
Schebosch, an Indian, chopped to pieces, 300.
Schoonbrum, Ohio, established by Moravians, 294.
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Delaware 224.
Indians, in Pontiac's War, 175.
Sevier, John, on the frontier, 257; at King's Mountain, 315; to organize a state west of Alleghanies, 361; fugitive from justice, 362; willing to join Spanish, 366.
Shallow Ford Station, had first race course in Kentucky, 244.
Shelby, Isaac, Gov. of Ken., at Point Pleasant, 221.
Shelby, Capt. Evan, 218; saves day at Point Pleasant, 220; at King's Mountain, 315.
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Shelbourne, Lord, prefers Ameri- can neighbors, 332.
Sherrill, Kate, escapes Indians, marries Sevier, 257.
Ship Island, in Gulf of Mexico, settled, 60.
Short, William, commissioner to negotiate treaty with Spain, 373.
Simcoe, Lieut. Gov. John Graves, invades U. S., 347; re- sponsible for Indian sufferings, 349.
Simcoe, Lake, on one route to Georgian Bay, 43.
Sinclair, Lt. Gov., sends to take St. Louis, 318.
Sioux, (Nation of the Ox), visi- ted by Grosseilliers and Radis- son, 7.
Slaves, first large importation into Louisana, 104; in New Orleans, 166.
Slover, John, 308.
Smallpox, among Indians, curi- ous case, 291.
Smugglers, 206.
Smith, James, at Ft. Duquesne, 143; describes Braddock's de- feat, 146.
Soldiers, La Salle's best of the day, 30; Bienville describes, 116; a mutiny among, 116.
South Bend, Ind., site of Fort Miami, 36.
South Carolina Company, 370.
South Sea, search for, 15; In- dians tell of a tributary of, 21. Spencer first settled at Nash- ville, Tenn., 290.
Spirit of the American Nation, 186.
Spotswood, Gov., claims the West for English, 75.
Stanwix, Fort, treaty of, 209. Starved Rock, Fort on, 45.
Station Camp Creek, Ky., Boone's skin hunters camp on, 198.
Stephen. Adam, 141.
Sterling, Capt., takes possession of Fort Chartres for British, 207. Stephens, a trader, attack on his canoe by Cresap, 213.
Stoddart, Capt. Benjamin, tells of French expedition, 134. Stony Point, the hero of, 342.
Strachey, British commissioner, in, 1783, found peace-making sad, 333.
Strobo, Robert, an American prisoner in Fort Duquesne, 143. Stuart, John, with Boone, 198; bones found, 199.
Stump speeches, 327.
Suffolk, Earl of, advises tor- ture, 253.
La Sueur comes to Louisiana, 59; reaches Lake Pepin, 60. Lake Superior visited, 3.
Sugar, introduction of manufac- turing, 168.
Sylph, warship at Manchac, 288. Symmes, John Cleve, settles Cincinnati, O.,
338; on St. Clair's troops. 343.
Talon, Jean Baptiste, "Inten- dant" of Canada, determines to spread French power, 9; chooses La Salle to do it, 11; sees value of the West, 13; sends Daumont de Saint-Lus- son to Lake Superior to hunt copper, 13-14; chooses Joliet to head Miss. expedition, 14.
Taylor, Hancock, 208. Tea Party, 247.
Tennessee, state building, 361; troubles of, 361-362; state made, 363; population, of (1790-1800), 380.
Tomahawk claim, 204.
Tonti, Henry de, La Salle's as- sistant, 32; reports mutiny at Fort Crevecoeur, 39; La Salle describes, 43; goes to Gulf in canoe, 55-59.
Todd, Col., at Blue Licks, 310. Toronto, La Salle in its harbor, 43; trading station at, 122.
Traders, daring, 1; jealousy and cowardice, 10; sneer at good work, 11; their one thought, 82; when traders came to Indian camps, 99; stock in trade, 110; British traders, 123; British attacked in Valley, 125; scalps of, 135; English traders at New Or- leans, 166-167; British and In- dians, 172; at Vincennes, 192; helped by Indians, 217; in peace treaty, 333; Spanish tra- ders' goods seized, 335.
Transylvania Company, 225, 243, 245.
Treaty and treaties-Champ- lain's with Iroquois, 2; Nico- let's at Sault Sainte Marie, 4; Joliet with Illinois, 19; Joliet with Quapaws, 23; Frontenac with Iroquois, 28; English and French, 155; by Sir William Johnson, 182; at Logston, 191; at Fort Stanwix, 193, 209; with Cherokees, 194, 203, 204; by Dunmore, 221; Boone's at Syca- more Shoals, 225; at end of American Rev., 331; at Fort Finney, 335; Jay's with Eng- land, 358; U. S. and England, 358, 372; with Spain, 374; of Amiens, 388; for purchase of Louisiana, 394-396.
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Trent, William, with Washing- ton, on expedition to build fort at the forks of the Ohio, 138.
Trigg, Col., killed, Blue Licks, 310.
Trinity River, Texas, reached by La Salle, 48.
Trudeau, Zenon, grants Boone Land in Missouri, 381.
Tryon, Governor, revolt against, 202.
Twitty, Capt., killed, 226.
Two Oceans Creek, 21.
Union, as dry wall, 360; loose conglomerate solidifying, 362.
Unzaga, Louis de, in charge at New Orleans, 168; marries French lady, 169; permitted British ships at New Orleans, 288.
Utica, Ill., site of La Salle's fort, 45.
Ursuline Nuns open School at New Orleans, 106; Sister Hochard's description of New Orleans, 106; Spanish Ursuline Nuns, 169.
Ulloa, Don Antonio de, at New Orleans, 163, et seq.
. Van Braam, Washington's in- terpreter, 140-141.
Vandalia, a proposed colony west of Alleghanies, 195; In- dians disappointed, 217.
Vaudreuil, Marquis de, succeeds Bienville, at New Orleans, 115; raids the English, 121.
Venango, Pa., French start from, 138.
Vente, Curate de la, a priest leader, 62.
Vergennes, Count Charles Gra- vier de, French Minister, atti- tude toward U. S., 357.
Victor, Gen. Claude Perrin, in command of a force that was to conquer Miss. Valley, 388.
Vigo, Francois, fate of a good American, 285.
Villier, arrested at New Orleans for treason, 165; Madam Vil- lier, her bed room described, 166. Villiers, Coulon de, attacks Washington, 140; burns fort Grandville, 150.
Vincennes, Ind., established, 112; the French at, 192; surrenders to Clark, 274.
Virginians, with Braddock, 145; Dunmore's Virginians, 218; as "Long Knives," 265.
Virginia, thanks Clark, 284; grants Kentucky's demands, 361; adopts Constitution, 362.
Wabash River. French on, 111 et seq .; Croghan visits, 191-192;
British raid down, 275; Clark's work along, 277 et seq.
Wabasha, Sioux Chief, 318.
Waddell, Capt. Hugh, Leads expedition against Cherokees, 198.
Wages, frontier, 51, 245.
Walker, Dr. Thomas, 124;
reaches head of Cumberland, 189.
Walker, Felix, wounded, 226.
Walnut Hills, (Vicksburg, Miss.), Spanish leave, 377.
Walpole grant, 195.
Ward, John, 198.
Ward, Nancy, squaw, saves woman, 256.
Ward, Ensign, begins fort at Forks of Ohio, 138.
Washington, George, sent to French in Ohio, 136; sent to Will's Creek, with militia, 138; whips Jumonville, 139; attacked by Villiers, 140; surrenders, 141; covers Braddock's retreat, 146; remembered twenty years later, 147; as to King's Proc- lamation, 187; in the Ohio Val- ley, 196; on St. Clair's Expedi- tion, 339; describes Wayne, 343; wisdom of, 359; and South Carolina Company, 370; de- feats French plans for raid down Miss. Valley, 372.
Washington College, Tenn., founded, 320.
Watauga, Tenn., settlements, a no-man's-land, 201 et seq .; In- dians in, 255-256.
Waterford, Pa., (fort La Beuf), 134, 175.
Wayne, General "Mad An- thony," 341; Washington de- scribes, 345; his men, 343-344; as the right man, 348; destroys Indian corn, 349; at Fallen Timbers, 350; his title "Mad Anthony," etc., 351; garrisons Fort Massac, 372; salutary ex- ample, 391.
Wetzel, Lewis, borderer, 328; and his rifle, 344.
Wheeling Creek, the Zanes come to, 204; Dunmore's war begins at, 213; attacked, 260; whiskey at, 325.
Whiskey, first export of Ken- tucky, 325.
Wilderness road, 226.
Wilkinson, James, infamous traitor, 285, 360; and Spanish, 364-365; and Connolly, 367; recommends O'Fallon, 370; and Gayoso, 374; sends Guion to take U. S. Territory, from Spanish, 377; at Louisiana transfer, 398.
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Williamson, Col. David, de- scribed, 299; in Crawford's raid, 304.
Willing, Clark's Gunboat, 277.
Whitney cotton gin, 380.
Winnebago lake, Wis., the Country south and west of, 17. Wisconsin (Meskousing) River, Joliet reaches, 17.
Wolf Hills fort, gets scalps, 257. Wolf, Gen. James, at Louisburg, 151; at Quebec, 154, 155.
Women, adventurers, on Miss. River, 113; home of wealthy in New Orleans, 166; first in Ken- tucky, 240.
Wythe, George, a Virginia
patriot, approves Clark's plan to invade Illinois, 268.
Yazoo, Miss., Colonists at, 104; Fraud, 373,
Yellow Creek Massacre, 215.
Yoder, Jacob, early whiskey dealer, 325.
Zane, Ebenezer, Silas and Jona- than, to Wheeling, 204; their followers, 210; one of them kills a big buffalo, 237; at the attack on Wheeling, 261; Jona- than, guide for Crawford's raid, 304.
Zeisberger, David, Moravian, missionary, 216. Zinc Mines, 68.
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