Norton are in the possession of the Wisconsin Historical
Society.--R. G. T.

[3] But Gallipolis was not settled until 1790, as has been
previously shown. Withers confounds the modern French town of
Gallipolis, whose residents were the sad victims of Indian
outrages rather than the abettors of them, with the old Shawnee
town just below the mouth of the Scioto (site of Alexandria,
O.). This fur-trading center was a village of log huts built by
the French for the accommodation of their Shawnee allies, and
was a center of frontier disturbances.--R. G. T.

[4] Preston's Journal does not lay much stress on Hogg's
delay. Norton's Journal, speaking of Hogg, says, "common
soldiers were by him scarcely treated with humanity," and he
seems to have regularly overruled and disobeyed Lewis. There
was much rancor in camp, and Norton writes of the Cherokee
allies, "The conduct and concord that was kept up among the
Indians might shame us, for they were in general quite
unanimous and brotherly."--R. G. T.

[5] This expedition was sent out under the auspices of Gov.
Dinwiddie--Fauquier did not become governor until 1758. No
countermanding orders were sent.--L. C. D.

[6] Audley Paul was first lieutenant in Preston's
company.--L. C. D.

[7] Withers, deriving his information from Taylor's
sketches, was misled as to any intention of establishing a
fort at the mouth of the Kanawha; and also as to Paul's, or
any one else's proposition to cross the Ohio, and invade the
Shawnee towns. The only aim was, to reach the Upper Shawnee
town.--L. C. D.

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_Comment by R. G. T._--"Upper Shawnee town" was an Indian
village at the mouth of Old Town Creek, emptying into the Ohio
from the north, 39 miles above the mouth of the Great Kanawha.

[8] If such a journal ever existed, it passed into the hands
of Gov. Dinwiddie, or possibly to Gov. Fauquier; but no
reference to it is found among the _Dinwiddie Papers_, as
published by the Virginia Historical Society; nor in the
_Calendar of State Papers_, published by the State of Virginia.
It is to be remarked, however, that few of the records of that
period have been preserved by that State.--L. C. D.

[9] Shortly after, M'Nutt was appointed gove