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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 given the name of his friend, William area residents believe the Delaware sachem lived sometime between Henry, by Moravians who baptized him in 1789 (W. Hunter in P. A. the 1750s and 1770s. W. Wallace 1965:177). Delaware descendants of Bemineo and Gelelemend, such HICKORY (Forest County). The expatriate Munsee community as the Kansas Delaware Indian John Henry Killbuck who worked known to British colonists as Hickory Town was located where as a Moravian missionary among the Yupik Eskimos during the late present-day Hickory Creek flows into the Allegheny River at the 1800s (see in Alaska in Part 2 below), today live in Delaware Indian community of East Hickory in Hickory Township. Moravians communities in Kansas and Oklahoma. 112 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet KINZUA (McKean and Warren counties). Widely associated with idently hoped would lend a touch of class to the small company town they built on a hill overlooking the river during the early 1900s. KITTANNING (Armstrong County). Heckewelder (1834:366) wrote that Kittanning came from the Delaware word, kithánne, “the superior, main stream.” He also noted that the word gichthanne, meant the same thing in Munsee. Delawares used the name Kittanning to identify the Ohio River, whose course included, in their view, today’s Allegheny River. Their main town, in the area, located in and around the present-day Borough of Kittanning, was first noted as Kythening by the trader James Le Tort in 1731 (State of Pennsylvania 1838-1935, Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Series 1:301). The British referred to Kittanning as the principal place of the Delawares on the Allegheny River throughout most of the second quarter of the eighteenth century. The French called the place Attique and Adiego, spellings that represented the ways they heard the Delawares pronounce Ohio. the eastern end of the Shenango River Lake holding water backed up behind the Shenango River Dam completed in 1955. Gist first noted the stream as Lacomick Creek in a December 23, 1753, entry in his journal (Darlington 1893:84). Howell subsequently placed the stream he identified as Lahawanick Creek at the current location of Lackawannock Creek in his map of 1792. Newcomers moving into the area laid out a township along the banks of the creek that they named Lackawannock in 1805. In 1848, the part of the township east of Little Neshannock Creek (see Neshannock below) split off to form present-day East Lackawannock Township. LENAPE (Armstrong County). Lenape Heights in Armstrong County is one of several places given this name in western Pennsylvania. 113 LOGAN (Blair County). A number of streets and other places in and around the City of Altoona in the Logan Valley bear the name of an eighteenth-century Delaware leader called Captain Logan by colonists. Both Delaware Captain Logan, and the more famous Delaware and Shawnee community of Logs Town located on the opposite bank of river. Abandoned after the Revolutionary War, the former Logs Town locale became the site of Legionville, the training camp established in 1792 for the American army christened the American Legion by its commander, General Anthony Wayne. The force organized at Legionville subsequently marched to victory over the Western Indian Confederacy at Fallen Timbers (see in Ohio in Part 2 below) on August 24, 1794. Following the battle, Wayne forced the Delawares and their coalition partners to give up much of their land in Ohio at the Treaty of Greenville (see in Ohio in Part 2 below) on August 3, 1795 (Oklahoma State University Library 1999-2000). LOYALHANNA (Westmoreland County). Crossing present-day Loyalhanna Creek during his passage into captivity in 1756, John McCullough (1841:90) noted that its name, La-el-han-neck, was a Delaware word for middle creek. A translation of “Middle river” for Loyalhanna can be formed by combining the Delaware word (1834:370) thought that the name of the stream he identified as Puckita came from the Delaware Indian word pachgita, “throw it away, abandon it.” It was subsequently noted as Pocketo’s Run and Poke Run on Howell’s map of 1792. Today, seven-mile-long Pucketa Creek and its Little Puketa Creek tributary flow across the mining country astride the Allegheny-Westmoreland county line into NEMACOLIN (Fayette, Greene, and Washington counties). Nora the Allegheny River at New Kensington just east of the City of PittsThompson Dean (in Weslager