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A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Cayahoga (Kaya‛ha’ge‘,
the fork of the stream. Hewitt). A village, perhaps belonging to the
Wyandot, formerly
situated on the N. E. side of Cuyahoga r., near Akron, Ohio.
Chartierstown. A Shawnee village, be fore 1748, on the
Ohio r., about 60 m. by water above Logstown, probably near Kittanning,
Armstrong co., Pa. Peter Chartier was an influential Shawnee half-breed about
that period. (J. M.)
Chillicothe (from Clĭ-la-ka′tha).
One of the four tribal divisions of the Shawnee. The division is still
recognized in the tribe, but the meaning of the word is lost. The Chillicothe
always occupied a village of the same name, and this village w 7 as regarded as
the chief town of the tribe. As the Shawnee retreated w. before the whites,
several villages of this name were successively occupied and abandoned. The old
Lowertown, or Lower Shawnee Tow r n, at the mouth of the Scioto, in Ohio, was
probably called Chillicothe. Besides this, there were three other villages of
that name in Ohio, viz:
(1) On Paint cr., on the site of Old-town, near Chillicothe, in Ross co. This
village may have been occupied by the Shawnee after removing from Lowertown. It
was there as early as 1774, and was destroyed by the Kentuckians. in 1787.
(2) On the Little Miami, about the site of Oldtown, in Greene co. The Shawnee
are said to have removed from Lowertown to this village, but it seems more
probable that they went to the village on Paint cr. This village near Oldtown
was frequently called Old Chillicothe, and Boone was a prisoner there in 1778.
It was destroyed by Clark in 1780.
(3) On the (Great) Miami, at the present Piqua, in Miami co.; destroyed by Clark
in 1782. (J. M.)
Chilohocki. A village on Miami r. , Ohio, in 1779 ( Brodhead in
Penn. Archives, xii, 177, 1856). Probably a
Delaware village; the name seems to be connected with Chikohoki, q. v. (J.
M. )
Coongaleés. Given
by Sauvole (French, Hist. Coll. La., 1st s. iii, 238, 1851) as a village
on Wabash (i. e. Ohio) r., above a Chickasaw village that was 140 leagues from
the Mississippi in 1701. As it is represented as on the route to Carolina,
Tennessee r. may have been intended. Perhaps a Cherokee town.
Cornstalk's Town. A Shawnee village on Scippo cr.,
opposite Squaw Town, Pickaway co., Ohio, nearly due s. from Circleville, in
1774. Howe, Hist, Coll. Ohio, 402, 1896.
Coshocton (Heckewelder derives a similar name,
Coshecton, from gichiéchton (German form),
finished, completed). Formerly the chief town of the Turtle tribe of the
Delawares, on the site of Coshocton, Coshocton co., Ohio. Destroyed by the
whites in 1781.
Cranetown. A former Wyandot village on the site of the
present Royalton, Fairfield co., Ohio. It was known to the Indians as Tarhe,
from the name of a chief in 1790, at which time it contained about 500
inhabitants in 100 wigwams built of bark. Howe, Hist. Coll. Ohio, i, 588,
1898.
Cranetown. A former Wyandot village in Crawford co., Ohio,
8 or 10 m. N. E. of the present Upper Sandusky. Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E.,
pi. clvi, 1899.
Custaloga's Town. The Delawares had two villages, each
known as Custaloga's Town, from the name of its chief, probably one and the same
person. The first village was near French cr., opposite Franklin, Venango co.,
Pa., in 1760; the other was on Walhonding r., near Killbucks cr., in Coshocton
co., Ohio, in 1766. The chief of this second village was chief of the
Unalachtigo Delawares, and had probably removed from the first village about
1763. The name is also written Costeloga, Custalaga, Custologa, Custologo,
Kustaloga.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
