On an old manuscript map without date in the New York State Library, it is noted as " Sdhoone Creek," while the Earl of Louden's map in 1757 has it marked as " Fork's Creek." ^ Rogers, the famious scout and ranger, called it " Bloody Brook." In Col. James Montresor's Journals, in 1757, it is styled " Half- Way Run." On the Robert Harpur map, in the Secretary of State's office at Albany, it is called " Scoune Creek,"^ while Knox's Military Journal designated it as " Seven Mile Creek," because it was seven miles from the head of the lake. In Wilson's Orderly Book of Amherst's Expedition, in 1759, it is laid down as " Shone Creek." ^ On a " powder 'horn map " made by one John Taylor of *' Swago " in 1765, there is a block house clearly defined at " Helf Br " between Forts Edward and George.* On later maps such as the Sauthier map, published about 1778, and reproduced in the Seventh Volume of the Governor Clinton Papers," it bears the ^ The name of " Fork Creek " was probably derived from the name given it by Major General Fitz John Winthrop, who headed an unsuccessful expedition against the Canadians and their Indian allies in the summer of 1690. On August 6th, he states that " he encamped at a branch of Wood Creak, called the fork." This is the place where the " Half- Way " enters Wood Creek near Fort Ann. Here, while his command was in camp, smallpox broke out, and a Lieut. Hubbell died from this disease and was buried at that spot. Our Secretary, R. O. Bascom, in his " Fort Edward Book," p. 15, states " this was the first recorded burial in the country." ^ Possibly a corruption of " Skene," from the founder of Skenesborough. ^ The New York World of February 2d, 1896, had a sketch of this powder horn, which, at that time, was in the museum of Major Frank A.