Editing Bellefontaine, Ohio (section)

===Blue Jacket's Town===
Around 1777, the [[Shawnee (tribe)|Shawnee]] war chief [[Blue Jacket]] (''Weyapiersenwah'') built a settlement here, known as "Blue Jacket's Town". Blue Jacket and his band had previously occupied a village along the [[Scioto River]], but the [[American Revolutionary War]] had reached the [[Ohio Country]]. Blue Jacket and other [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] who took up arms against the [[American Revolution|American revolutionaries]] relocated in order to be closer to their British allies at [[Detroit]].

After the United States gained independence, its forces continued warfare against former Indian allies of the British. Blue Jacket's Town was destroyed in [[Logan's Raid]], conducted by Kentucky militia in 1786 at the outset of the [[Northwest Indian War]]. The expedition was led by [[Benjamin Logan]], namesake of Logan County. Blue Jacket and his followers relocated further northwest to the [[Maumee River]].<ref name="OhioHistory">[http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0012169.html&StartPage=167&EndPage=179&volume=12&newtitle=Volume%2012%20Page%20167 Ohio History, Vol. 12, pg 169] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429041622/http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=0012169.html&StartPage=167&EndPage=179&volume=12&newtitle=Volume%2012%20Page%20167 |date=2009-04-29 }}</ref>

Beginning in the 1800s, [[American Revolutionary War]] [[veterans]] and others from [[Virginia]] and elsewhere began settling in the area of Blue Jacket's Town. Bellefontaine is on or near the edge of the [[Virginia Military District]], where the cash-poor government granted tracts of land to veterans in payment for their services during the war. The [[Treaty of Greenville]] defined lands to be held by European Americans as separate from those to be held by natives but it was poorly administered in the area and whites frequently encroached on native lands.<ref name="OhioHistory" />