[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] streams.” The latter term comes from alligéwi, the name that Delaware Indian storytellers still use to identify the western country’s original long vanished inhabitants. Allegheny and its variant spelling Allegany (see in New York in Part 2 above) are very widespread Delaware Indian place names. The GNIS lists nearly 250 places bearing the name spelled one way or the other in 18 states. Many of these references directly document or are closely associated with the 325-mile-long Allegheny River. The river flows from its headwaters in Potter County through the Borough of Port Allegany in Pennsylvania north across into New York. Reentering Pennsylvania at Warren County, the (in Donehoo 1928:89). The community’s people soon moved farther away to the extensive Indian settlement known as the Kuskusky Towns on the Beaver River (see above). Building their new mission at the present-day site of Moravia (see below), they named the place “city of peace” (Lagundo Utenunk in Delaware and Friedensstadt in German) in 1770. Most the Indians living at the Kuskuskys Towns had to move away as fighting brought on by the Revolutionary War spread to the Ohio Country by 1778. Munsee and other Delawares not leaving the Allegheny Valley for safer surroundings farther west away from the fighting moved north among their Delaware and Ouaquaga countryfolk in Seneca territory at and around Cattaraugus (see in New York in Part 2 above). CROOKED CREEK (Armstrong County). Heckewelder (1834:372) wrote that the otherwise unattested origin of the name of Crooked Creek, a stream that flows into the Allegheny River just south of Lenape Heights, came from woakhanne, a Delaware word for a crooked stream with great bends. Reichel (1872:23) observed that Zeisberger recorded similar-looking Delaware words in the JACOBS CREEK (Fayette and Westmoreland counties). Thirtyforms of woak-tschin-ni, “to bend,” and woak-tsche-u, “crooked.” three-mile-long Jacobs Creek and its namesake community, located at the place where the stream falls into the Youghiogheny River (see CROSS CREEK (Washington County). Heckewelder (1834:372) below), bear the name of the Delaware Indian war leader known to noted that the two streams bearing the same name that flow into the the English as Captain Jacob. Frontier entrepreneur Christopher Gist Ohio River across from one another just below Steubenville, Ohio, (in Darlington 1893:80) made the first reference to Jacob’s Cabins were called wéwuntchi saquíck, “two streams emptying themselves in the area in 1753. into a river directly opposite to each other” by the Delawares. The Captain Jacob was among the many Delawares killed by name Cross Creek in Pennsylvania also adorns a township, a park, Pennsylvanian militiamen who attacked and burned Kittanning (see and much else in Washington County. below) on September 8, 1756. An identically named nephew of Captain Jacob was subsequently mentioned in colonial documents CUSSEWAGO (Crawford County). Cussewago is an Iroquois penned as late as 1768 (W. Hunter in P. A. W. Wallace 1965:176). name for a Munsee place also known as Custaloga’s Town (see Donehoo (1928:173-174) noted that Jacobs Creek was the below), the Iroquois name for the town’s Delaware leader, Pakanke. stream that Heckewelder (1834:370) identified as Salt Lick Creek, Whritenour notes that pakànke is a Delaware Indian word for seven- an English translation of the Delaware place name sikheuhánne, “a year locust. stream flowing from a salt lick,” based on sĭkhewi mahoni, their The name Cussewago was first mentioned as Caseowago word for “salt lick.” and Cussewago in English trader’s reports made in 1753 (Darlington 1893:82; State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania KILBUCK (Allegheny and Cambria counties). The Town of KilRecords, Colonial Records 5:659-660). Today, 25-mile-long buck just west of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County (established in Cussewago Creek flows from its headwaters in Erie County in New 1869) and two Clearfield Creek tributaries running through Prince York south across the state line into Cussewago Township (incor- Gallitzin State Park in Cambria County, called Killbuck Creek and porated in 1800) in Pennsylvania. Joined in the township by its West Little Killbuck Creek, bear the name of two distinguished eighBranch, the main stem of the Cussewago River pursues a tightly teenth-century Delaware Indian diplomats. The elder Killbuck, twisted path to its junction with the Allegheny River tributary of whose Delaware name was Bemineo, was a noted counselor and French Creek at the City of Meadville. leader of the Wolf phratry. His son, whose Delaware name was Gelelemend, “he who takes the lead, or the leader” (Heckewelder CUSTALOGA (Mercer County). As mentioned above, Custaloga 1834:392-393), was a prominent Turtle phratry leader who sucwas the Iroquois name of the prominent Delaware Indian leader ceeded Netawatwees (see Newcomer in Ohio in Part 2 below) as Pakanke. The name of the present-day Custaloga scout camp the leader of the Delawares in the Muskingum Valley. Also known (opened in 1967) marks a place along French Creek where many as John Killbuck, Jr., he was