Chalahgawtha

Chalahgawtha (or, more commonly in English, Chillicothe(/ˌtʃɪlɪˈkɒθi/ CHIL-ih-KOTH-ee)[1] was the name of one of the five divisions (or bands) of the Shawnee, a Native American people, during the 18th century.

As a result of naming their communities in this way, there are numerous Shawnee Chillicothe villages in the historical record.

Lower Shawnee Town was abandoned in 1758, after the population relocated north into central Ohio to avoid attack by the Virginia militia.

[5] European influences, especially in trade goods such as guns, kettles, and clothing, were prevalent among the Shawnee at this time.

David Jones, an Anglican missionary, visited the town in 1773 and noted that a British fur trader named Moses Henry lived there.

In the early 1770s, the Shawnee towns on the Scioto were the focus of a Shawnee-led movement formed to resist colonial expansion onto their traditional hunting grounds following the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

An army from Virginia marched to the Scioto villages and forced the Shawnee to accept the boundary established in the Stanwix treaty.

After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, many Chillicothe residents relocated northwest to form a village on the Little Miami River.

Frontiersman Daniel Boone was captured in Kentucky in 1778 by Chief Blackfish and brought to Chillicothe with other prisoners.

According to tradition the village was the birthplace of Tecumseh, who became a famous Shawnee leader responsible for creating a large alliance among tribes in the late eighteenth century.

After Chief Blackfish unsuccessfully besieged Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1778, Americans crossed the Ohio River and attacked Chillicothe on May 29, 1779.

was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, north of present Cape Girardeau, Missouri.