[Diary entry: 30 October 1770]

30. Incampd Early Just by the old Shawna Town distant from our last no more than 15 Miles.

Shawnee Town appears on Lewis Evans’s 1766 map of the middle colonies just north of the confluence of the Ohio and the Great Kanawha rivers. It is not the Lower Shawnee Town at the mouth of the Scioto River.

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Title: [Diary entry: 30 October 1770]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 30 October 1770

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 30 October 1770],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0027-0032. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, pp. 283–284.]