The town was repopulated for a short time afterwards, then abandoned again as a new community was established by Netawatwees a few miles to the east at Gekelukpechink.

The name was given in 1748 when a large band of Wyandot moved to the Muskingum River area to escape conflict with the French.

On Christmas, Gist asked Montour and a blacksmith named Thomas Burney (employed by Croghan) to bring some of the Indians to hear him read the Bible.

Gist said that he was worried about being captured by the French, to which the Indians invited him to "bring great Guns and make a Fort" at Muskingum.

The Indians wanted him to baptize their children and perform Christian weddings but Gist told them they would need a minister to come and instruct them properly.

Barney Curran, the trader in charge of Croghan's trading post, asked to be allowed to bury the body.

In the account of losses suffered by George Croghan & Co. dated at Carlisle, Pennsylvania April 24, 1756, appears the item: "one store-house at Muskingum, £150.

"[3]: 178 Captive Charles Stuart passed through the area on 23 November 1755 and noticed Croghan's residence and trading house still standing.

[18]: 23  In his captivity narrative, he wrote: We Continued Travelling near the river for abt 10 Miles thro' Land Cover'd with the ground Oaks of Barrens But yet the Soil Seem'd pretty good--the said barrens...ended at the House where an Eng[lish] Indian Trader had Formerly Lived and where was an Indian House of Both which were deserted.

[20] By 1758, the town was repopulated and was home to several English captives taken in raids on frontier communities during the French and Indian War.

Marie Le Roy and Barbara Leininger, both age 12, were captured during the Penn's Creek massacre on 16 October 1755.

[21] Hugh Gibson, 14, was captured in July, 1756 by Lenape Indians, outside Robinson's Fort,[22] near present-day Southwest Madison Township, Pennsylvania.

His mother and a neighbor were killed by the Indians, and he was brought to Kittanning, where he was adopted by Lenape war chief Pisquetomen.

[23] After Kittanning was attacked on 8 September 1756, Pisquetomen took him to Saucunk and then to Muskingum, where in March, 1759, he escaped, together with a Scotsman named David Brackenridge, Marie Le Roy, and Barbara Leininger.

[24]: 141–153 John McCullough was 8 years old when he was captured by Lenape warriors in July, 1756, and brought to "Shenango," (a corruption of Chiningué).

In his captivity narrative he reports living there with a Lenape family for two and a half years before moving to "Kseek-he-ooing" (possibly Saucunk) in late 1758.

[8] On 15 March 1764 Colonel Henry Bouquet's army camped at the abandoned site of the village to receive captives handed over by Indians as part of a peace agreement signed the previous October with the Shawnee, the Ohio Seneca-Cayuga, and the Lenape.

On the opposite side of the River is a large corn field, in rich low ground; it is inclosed within one common fence, & each family has its division to plant.

It was a long building covered with hemlock bark, with a swinging door at each end...the Conjuror's house...was the best built in town except the king's.