Hanna, in his book titled The Wilderness Trail, published in 1911, quotes on page 142 "Dr. Thwaites, in a note to Wither's Chronicles of Border Warfare, states that the Upper Shawnee Town (which a troop of Virginia militia—The Big Sandy Expedition—vainly tried to find in 1756) was an Indian village at Old Town Creek, emptying into the Ohio from the north, 39 miles above the mouth of the Great Kanawha."