Spanish Moss bend just below No. 82

This is a beautiful right hand bend forming three-fourths of a regular circle of about eight miles in length. .....

Illechecko settlement

This settlement, of four small cabins, occupied by one Indian, one French, and two American families, having as many corn patches of three or four acres to each house, is at the right hand oint immediately below the Spanish Moss bend, and a little above the head of No. 83. The bank here is pretty high, but I fear the overflowings of 1813 have destroyed all present attempts to continue the settlement. The peach tree leaves were green here on the 21^st December 1812, though the fall had been unusually cold and early, and the winter afterwards more severe than had been witnessed for 20 years.

The Navigator. Zadok Cramer. Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania (1814) p. 20