Shawneetown
At the time of Mary's capture, the Shawnee settlement of Shawneetown was a bustling village of approximately 2,200 Indians. To get there, the Indians followed the Cumberland River until it converged with the Ohio River, and then followed it northward.
In Songbirds are Free, the Shawnee at Shawneetown helped to stage the counterattack against George Rogers Clark's militia at Fort Jefferson, down river near the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
After the Revolutionary War, Meriwether Lewis and John Clark (George Rogers Clark's younger brother) came through Shawneetown.
They recognized it as a strategic position in the Northwest Territory and Shawneetown became a United States government administrative center.
Today the town is all but deserted. Though the sign entering town shows a population of 400, the 2000 census shows a population of 100 households and 278 people. 99.64% of the population was listed as white and only 0.36% as Native American.

The bank shown at left is one of the few commercial buildings in town. Three miles inland to the west is another town of Shawneetown and this original site is now known as Old Shawneetown.
When the braves left the village in 1780 to launch their counterattack against the settlers at Fort Jefferson in retaliation for their raids on the Shawnee villages of Chillicothe and Piqua, Mary was taken by the squaws up the Ohio River, where they waited for their braves to return. It was considered too dangerous for the squaws to remain at the village.