In early June of 1785, Harmar received reports that 'hostile' Indians had 'killed and scalped seven people near the mouth of the Scioto.”

From here Harmar had sent out small detachments of soldiers with orders to 'dispossess' the squatters who had begun settling on lands that Congress had not yet opened to surveying or sale. McIntosh, modern-day Beaver, Pennsylvania. Harmar had command of American forces at Ft. Josiah Harmar would have eventually attempted to break up the settlement. If the Indians had not run them off in late May, the US Army Under the command of Gen. At the time of the abandonment, the US military had been tasked by the Confederation Congress with keeping squatters off the lands north and west of the Ohio. In May of 1785 the first attempted (and illegal) American settlement in the Scioto Valley was abandoned following an Indian attack, which killed two of the settlers. Years later, when the threat of Indian attack had ended, and permanent settlers began to fill the valley, the carved initials were rediscovered and adopted by area residents as the name for the creek, the prairie through which it once meandered, and to the Pike county township that all bear its moniker. Pee Pee Creek, whose waters fill Lake White, derives its name from one of the settlers who, just before the deadly attack, carved his initials into the trunk of a large beech tree.

Here in the summer of 1785, Native Americans attacked a group of settlers who were attempting to establish squatter rights to lands in the Scioto Valley. In the 1930s when the waters of Pee Pee were dammed by the state of Ohio and the WPA, its flow was changed so that today it spills into Crooked Creek, which then runs into the Scioto. Modern-day Lake White is located near the old confluence of Pee Pee Creek and the Scioto River.

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