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This information alone was of sufficient importance for me to risk my life many times in order to apprise my superiors of the trap being set for them. By the time the sun was half-way down the afternoon sky all the chiefs were moving down the river bound for Chillicothe. Young Ellinipsico and a mixed band of warriors were left to arrange for guarding the girl.
"I should like to see enough to excite me just once. I shouldn't mind being lured that way. Would you, Walt?" Walter Perkins shook his head and smiled. "I fear you will have to shake yourself get over your natural laziness before you can hope to," chuckled Ned. "I doubt if you would know a lure if you met one on Main Street in Chillicothe." "Try me and see," grinned Stacy.
This news that the savages will not defend Chillicothe will give our men great encouragement. Already they will see the enemy fleeing before them." Colonel Clark was a good prophet.
Henry's comrades asked him no questions, knowing that when they stopped he would tell them everything, unasked. But they saw that he was in an excellent humor, and so they inferred that he brought valuable information from Chillicothe. "I call it luck," said Shif'less Sol, "that when you have to run for your life you can at the same time run the way you want to go."
Having exhibited him for two weeks, Chief Black Fish and warriors escorted him back to Chillicothe. They left Detroit on April 10, and were fifteen days on the trail: another disagreeable march. Big Turtle made no complaint, he acted as much Indian as they, and they thought more highly of him than ever. They marveled that a white man should equal them.
Boone, owing to his captivity among the Indians, knew something about the country, and he led them straight toward Piqua. As Piqua and Chillicothe, two large Indian towns, were only twelve miles apart, there was an Indian road or broad trail between them, and they followed it for some distance. The road showed the haste with which the inhabitants of Chillicothe had fled.
One became aware, from the loving tones in which he pronounced the two words, whence he derived his sobriquet. Lawton expressed the opinion that Chillicothe, of that State, was the finest town on top of earth. Bennington presumed it might be, and then opportunely bethought him of a bottle of Canadian Club, which, among other necessary articles, he had brought with him from New York.
This left twenty-seven to march with the Shawnees. As Daniel Boone had hoped, instead of continuing on to Boonesborough the Shawnees hastened northward, to display their triumph in their town of Little Chillicothe on the Little Miami River in southwestern Ohio. Twenty-seven prisoners, without the loss of a scalp! And American prisoners were worth money, these days.
In October 1814, he was elected from Cuyahoga county a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, being barely old enough under the Constitution when the Legislature met to take his seat in that body and being the youngest member. Chillicothe was then the temporary State capital. On the 25th of August, 1817.
The scene of this conflict was at what is now known as Heller's Corners, eleven miles northwest of Fort Wayne, at the point where the Goshen road crosses the Eel river. On the day of Hardin's defeat the main body of the army had moved down the north bank of the Maumee about two miles and had occupied the Shawnee village of Chillicothe.
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