Editing Coshocton, Ohio (section)

==History==
The [[Lenape]] sympathetic to the new United States stayed near Coshocton. [[White Eyes]], then leader of the Lenape people, signed the [[Treaty of Fort Pitt]] of 1778, by which the Lenape hoped to secure their safety during the War, and he promised scouts and support to the rebel colonists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/del1778.asp|title = The Avalon Project : Treaty with the Delawares : 1778|website=Avalon.law.yale.edu}}</ref>

In retaliation for frontier raids by hostile Lenape and British, Colonel [[Daniel Brodhead]] of the [[Continental Army]] ignored the treaty. After indiscriminately raiding and destroying the peaceful [[Christian Munsee|Moravian Christian Lenape]] settlement of Indaochaic also known as [[Lichtenau, Ohio|Lichtenau]], he [[Brodhead's Coshocton expedition|attacked and destroyed the Lenape at Coshocton]] in April 1781.<ref name=tanner>{{cite book |last= Tanner |first= Helen Hornbeck |author2= Adele Hast |author3= Jacqueline Peterson |author4= Robert J. Surtees |author5= Miklos Pinther |title= Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History |url= https://archive.org/details/atlasofgreatlake0000unse/page/72 |year= 1987 |publisher= University of Oklahoma Press |isbn= 0-8061-2056-8 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/atlasofgreatlake0000unse/page/72 72, 81] }}</ref>

Coshocton was originally called Tuscarawas by American colonists, after the river, and under the latter name was laid out in 1802. The young town was renamed Coshocton when it was designated county seat by the legislature in 1811.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uguAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 | title=Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio | publisher=R. Clarke & Company | author=Hunt, William Ellis | year=1876 | pages=3}}</ref>