Judge George Corwin's Account of Peter Patrick, first published in 1844.

ID: 316 ~ Source: “Early Attempt at Settlement” American Pioneer , a Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Objects of the Logan Historical Society; or, to Collecting and Publishing Sketches Relative to the Early Settlement and Successive Improvement of the Country. Vol. 1, No. 1 (John S. Williams: Cincinnati, 1844): 56-59. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 1844

This file appears in: How Pee Pee Creek Got Its Name: Peter Patrick, Squatter Rights, & the First Attempted American Settlement in the Scioto Valley

Detail image of opening lines of Judge George Corwin's letter to John S. Williams, editor and publisher of the American Pioneer (Cincinnati, 1844).

This file appears in: How Pee Pee Creek Got Its Name: Peter Patrick, Squatter Rights, & the First Attempted American Settlement in the Scioto Valley

How Pee Pee Creek Got Its Name: Peter Patrick, Squatter Rights, & the First Attempted American Settlement in the Scioto Valley

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Modern-day Lake White is located near the old confluence of Pee Pee Creek and the Scioto River. In the 1930s when the waters of Pee Pee were dammed by the state of Ohio and the WPA, its flow was…