Line, to Towanda Creek, Thence to the Head of Pine Creek, Thence to The

Line, to Towanda Creek, Thence to the Head of Pine Creek, Thence to The

PASSING OF WESTERN FRONTIER 599 line, to Towanda Creek, thence to the head of Pine Creek, thence to the mouth of Pine Creek, and up the West Branch of the Susquehanna to its source; thence over to Kittanning; and thence down the Allegheny and Ohio to the west line of the state. Now one of the important features of the Fort Stanwix purchase and treaty of October 23, 1784, was the settlement of the difficulty that, ever since the Fort Stanwix treaty and purchase of November 5, 1768, had existed among various Pennsylvania settlers in relation to that part of the boundary of the former purchase marked by the creek called Tyadaghton by the Indians. Some settlers claimed that this was the Indian name for Lycoming Creek, while others claimed it was the Indian name for Pine Creek. Therefore, at the pur- chase and treaty of October, 1784, the Pennsylvania commissioners, in compliance with their instructions inquired specifically of the Six Nations which stream was really the Tyadaghton, and also the Indian name of Burnet's Hills, left blank in the deed of November, 1768. The Indians then informed the commissioners that Tyadaghton was what the white people called Pine Creek, which flows into the West Branch of the Susquehanna in the western part of Lycoming County, instead of Lycoming Creek, which also flows into the West Branch of the Susquehanna in Lycoming County, but some fifteen or more miles farther to the east. As to Burnet's Hills, the Indians said they knew them as the "Long Mountains" and by no other name. The deed given at Fort Stanwix extinguished the Iroquois title to this region, but it became necessary to appease the Wyandots, Delawares and other west- ern tribes, who likewise claimed title to the same lands. Therefore, the same commissioners who were at the treaty at Fort Stanwix, were sent to Fort McIntosh,.

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