[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] 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 Killbuck on the along the river’s banks (in Hanna 1911 2:200). banks of the 81-mile-long Killbuck Creek bears the name of an influential Delaware Indian family whose earliest known ancestors, MOHICAN (Ashland, Coshocton, Cuyahoga, Holmes, Knox, and Killbuck (Bemino) and John Killbuck, Jr. (also known as Gelele- Richland counties). The 30-mile-long Mohican River and its tribumend: see the entry for Kilbuck above in Pennsylvania), moved to taries flow through a valley occupied at various locales by Mohican, the Tuscarawas River valley along with many of their people from Delaware, and other communities of displaced Indian people bePennsylvania during the third quarter of the 1700s. Sharing the po- tween the 1760s and the first decades of the nineteenth century. sition of principal sachem of the Delawares living at Coshocton (see Most places today bearing the name Mohican in the area are located above) with White Eyes (see below) following the death of his along the river’s upper branches in Ashland County. Historically grandfather Netawatwees in 1776, John Killbuck became a strong chronicled Mohickon John’s Town, a multi-cultural community insupporter of the American cause in the War for Independence. He termittently occupied between 1760 and 1778 by displaced Mohilost most of his following after guiding the American troops that can, Delaware, and Stockbridge Indians, was probably located burned Coshocton in 1781. Leading a wandering life one step ahead where Old Town Creek flows into the river’s main stem near the of murderous settlers and angry kinsfolk in the years following the City of Perrysville. war, he became a communicant of the Moravian church. Moving Writing at his camp at Lake Sandusky (see below) on Sepwith them to various mission stations, he died at Goshen (see above) tember 30, 1761, Colonel Henry Bouquet reported his plan to build in 1811. a house three miles away for “a certain Mohyken John, a good where Netatwhelmen, the king of the Delawares lived” in late September 1766. English traveler Nicholas Cresswell found a place that had “been a large town but now allmost Deserted” when he passed by the site on August 28, 1775 (Gill and Curtis 2009:74). Most of its population and the Delaware national council that had met at the town by then had already moved 12 miles farther west to Coshocton, where they remained until Americans destroyed the place in 1781. MUNCIE (Sandusky County). The hamlet of Muncie Hollow bears the name of the Munsees who lived among the Wyandots in the Sandusky Valley (see below) from the years just before the Revolution- NIMISHELLIN (Stark, Summit, and Tuscarawas counties). ary War to the Removal Era of the 1830s. Nimishellin Creek is a 25-mile-long stream whose East Branch flows from its headwaters in Nimishellin Township past the City of MUSKINGUM (Morgan, Muskingum, and Washington counties). Canton where it is joined by its Middle and West branches. The conSeveral colonial writers thought that Muskingum was a Delaware solidated waters of the creek’s main stem ultimately flow south into or other Indian word meaning elk’s eye (e.g., Gist’s “Elks Eye Sandy Creek near its confluence with the Tuscarawas River. The Creek,” in Darlington 1893:36). Mahr (1957:145) suggested that Nimishellin, Sandy, and Tuscarawas waterways were first depicted Muskingum was a Shawnee name meaning “where the land is as a single stream identified as Lamanshikolas Creek on the 1755 swampy, soggy,” also used by their Delaware neighbors. The Evans map. Delaware captive John McCullough (1841:103), who lived at what Heckewelder (1834:388) stated that the stream that he he called “the forks of Moosh-king-oong” during the early 1760s, identified as Nemoschili Creek was the place where “Tamaque, alias wrote that the name meant “clear eyes,” in reference to the clear King Beaver” (see in Pennsylvania West above) established his eyes of fish taken at the locale. Whritenour thinks that the present- town sometime before 1763. Heckewelder further thought that day spelling of Muskingum produces a name that sounds very much Nemoschili was an earlier name for the stream he knew as the Tuslike the Munsee word mooshkiingwung, “place of rabbits.” carawas River. In his journal entry for October 13, 1764, Bouquet Muskingum first appeared on Bonnecamps’ map of 1749 (in Mitchener 1876:73) noted that his army crossed what he