Aftermath of Logan’s Raid

Aftermath of Logan’s Raid. . , After the 1786 destruction of the Upper Mad River Shawnee villages, some Mekoches migrated northwest to a bountiful area known as the Grand Glaize along the Maumee River. Others relocated to Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. However, the cruelty of Logan’s campaign including the unprovoked murder of the peacemaker Chief Moluntha, solidified anti-American sentiment among the remaining Shawnee, mostly Mekoche and Chillicothe members, resulting in further warfare., Two surviving Upper Mad River chiefs took different approaches. Kispoko war chief Wayapiersenway (Blue Jacket) joined other tribes in fighting the Americans while Mekoche civil chief Quatawapea (Captain Lewis) cooperated with the new settlers. As a result of the 1794 American victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the resulting Treaty of Greenville a year later, half of the Ohio land was ceded to the Americans. Quatawapea established a town on Stoney Creek six miles from here., Shawnee loyalties were divided between the British and the Americans in the War of 18 12. Chief Quatawapea, who fought alongside the Americans, was rewarded for his ongoing support by being allowed to remain in Ohio. The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs confined his Seneca-Shawnee followers to a 40,300-acre reservation north of the Treaty of Greenville line. This reservation was named Lewistown after his earlier village. "In spite of removal, no matter how much loss we had experienced, not only did we still remain, so did the story of the land." , Chief Benjamin Barnes, Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma , Resilience through Adversity, 2017, From Ohio to Oklahoma , Chief Quatawapea's followers lived at the Lewistown Reservation until the 1830 Indian Removal Act forced their westward relocation to an area called Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Once there, Quatawapea founded the Eastern Shawnee tribe and helped to create a new confederacy of emigrant Indians of various tribes for defense against western tribes and white people., As treaties restricted the lands on which Shawnees were permitted to live, settlers continued to move to the area. By 1803, Ohio had become sufficiently popular among settlers to make it the 17th US state., In 1818, the new residents of what was once Moluntha's Town chose to honor Benjamin Logan in naming this area Logan County. The same year, Clark County was established 25 miles south surrounding Springfield, Ohio in honor of George Rogers Clark.,

"The year was 1830. The Indian Removal Act was passed that year and we, the Mixed Band of Seneca and Shawnee living on a small reservation known as the Lewistown Reserve near Wapakoneta, Ohio, were chosen for removal. We were the biblical 'chosen few.' We were the first to be forcibly removed from the Ohio Valley to a land far away known as Indian Territory, a distance of some seven hundred to eight hundred miles in a land that almost eighty years later became the state of Oklahoma. ..." , Chief Glenna Wallace, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma , Settling Ohio First Peoples and Beyond, edited by Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, 2023