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Chapter 7

1764-1774. Shawnee Village in Johnson County, Kentucky (Eastern Kentucky). There may have been a settlement in eastern Kentucky in the period after the French and Indian War. Jillson places a Shawnee village at the confluence of Big Mud Lick and Little Mud Lick creeks in northern Johnson County from 1764 to 1774. This is the village from which Jenny Wiley is supposed to have made her escape. There are other references to the Shawnee in the vicinity of Big Sandy River as well. 1764AD. After a peace treaty with Colonel Henry Bouquet in 1764, those of the Shawnee on the Scioto and Muskingum who signed the treaty migrated westward and established two villages on the Little Miami and Mad rivers. The town that became known as “Old Chillicothe” was built on the Little Miami River, three miles north of the present city of Xenia, Ohio. This village became famous as the place where Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton were held captive. About twelve miles north of it stood the town of Piqua on t