Encamped on the east side of this river (Scioto), at a place called Red Bank… near the mouth… where in floods the waters of this river (Scioto) and Ohio unite.”
Lost in the Walnut Bottom
While most colonists welcomed the New Year of 1773 beside warm hearths, a Pennsylvania Baptist minister was pushing west along the icy bends of the Ohio River. Reverend David Jones had set out on December 31, determined to visit Indian towns beyond the settlements — but the wilderness had plans of its own…