goschochking

Updated: May 25, 2025

This agency, while guarding the trade in peltries, also kept its eye on the fleets that descended the Ohio, on the growing settlements of Kentucky, and warned the Indians against American encroachment. In 1778, and while the revolution was in progress, the missionary John Heckewelder, noted the arrival at Goschochking on the Muskingum, of three renegades and fugitives from Pittsburg.

Elmore Barce - The Land of the Miamis : An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812