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Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History

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[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] years later, state authorities suspecting Greentown spring of 1782 to gather what they could from their fields and stor- Indians of pro-British sympathies forcibly removed its population age pits. On March 9, 1782, American militiamen who marched into at the beginning of the War of 1812. Local settlers soon set fire to the town the day before murdered all of the 96 Moravian Indians the empty town. Most of these people subsequently took refuge at they took prisoner there in the single most reprehensible mass Pipestown (see Hopocan and Pipe below) in the upper Sandusky killing of the war. River valley (see below). Although Gnadenhutten was briefly reoccupied by MoraSome Pipestown refugees, such as Tom Jelloway (see vian Delawares in 1798, most of these people soon moved to the below), returned to the Greentown area after the war. The majority Fairfield mission (see Moraviantown in Ontario below). German of former Greentown Indians finally accepted cash payments to and English-speaking non-Indian Moravian settlers from back east compensate them for their losses at the Treaty of Maumee Rapids began moving into the area shortly thereafter. German settlers build- signed on September 29, 1817 (Oklahoma State University Library ing their homes on the former mission town site on the east side of 1999-2000). The treaty also established a nine-square-mile reserthe Tuscarawas River continued to call the place Gnadenhutten. vation for Delaware Indians living at Pipestown. This reservation English-speakers locating themselves on the river’s west bank ini- was finally given up in 1829 when its residents agreed to join the tially called their community Yankeetown. Today, the Gnadenhutten Delaware main body in Kansas. 124 Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet GREENVILLE (Darke County). The Treaty of Greenville State Park in the City of Greenville commemorates the peace agreement signed on August 3, 1795 that required its Delaware, Shawnee, and other Indian signatories to give up all of their lands in present-day Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River (see above) and below a line stretching from the Cuyahoga’s headwaters west to Fort Recovery on the Wabash River near the Indiana border (Oklahoma State University Library 1999-2000). HOCKING (Athens, Fairfield, Hocking, and Washington counties). Whritenour thinks the early recording of this name in the form died in 1794. JELLOWAY (Ashland and Knox counties). Fed by its East Fork and Little Jelloway Creek tributaries, 12-mile-long Jelloway Creek flows from its headwaters just above the hamlet of Jelloway south to the community of Howard where it joins the Kokosing River (see below). The names of these places preserve the memory of Tom Jelloway. Tom Jelloway was born into the family of Delaware Indian diplomat Job Chilloway in the Wyoming Valley (see in Pennsylvania Central above). Moving with his family to the Tuscarawas Valley just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he ultimately settled with a group of mostly Munsee and Mingo expatriates at Greentown (see above). Jelloway was among the Indians living at Greentown deported to Pipestown (see below) at the beginning of the War of 1812. Unlike most of his townsfolk, Jelloway returned at the end of the war to the valley that today bears his name. Tom Jelloway has since become a central figure in local folk traditions, perhaps best remembered as a friend of John Chapman, “Johnny Appleseed,” who owned several orchards in the Jelloway Valley. JEROME (Ashland County). The Jerome Fork of the Mohican and burned their town at the beginning of the War of 1812. Newcomers laid out the present-day Village of Jeromesville in 1815. KATOTAWA (Ashland County). Local tradition holds that Katotawa Creek, a tributary of the Jerome Fork of the Mohican River just north of Jeromesville (see above) is named for a prominent Greentown Indian (see above) reputedly killed and beheaded after electing to remain in the area after the town’s other Indian residents were forced to abandon the place in 1812. The spelling of the name HOPOCAN (Summit County). Hopocan Avenue in the Akron sub- resembles the Mahican word Kuttoohwauw (Aupaumut 1827:97) urb of Barberton commemorates the memory of Munsee Delaware and its Shawnee cognate, Cuttawa. Meaning “black” in English, Indian war leader Hopocan, whose name meant “the pipe” in his both words were used to identify Cherokee Indians. Beyond Manhattan, Robert S. Grumet 125 Katotawa, identified as an old Indian hunter named Catotoway (in Howe 1907-1908 2:832), may either have been a Cherokee, or a man named after or for one of the many Cherokees who joined Indians in Ohio resisting American expansion during the late he called Mo-hon-ing along a river that he identified as “a wast [sic] branch of Beaver.” Hutchins noted the Mahoning River at its current location in his map of 1764; the itinerary he prepared to accompany his map referred to the Indian community he called Mohoning Town KILLBUCK (Holmes County). The Village of