This threat, plus the presence of French troops in the Ohio Valley as well as French military victories at Fort Prince George and the Battle of Fort Necessity, persuaded the residents of Lower Shawneetown and several other communities that the balance of power was about to change, and they expelled the English traders in 1754, as much for their safety as to indicate that they were showing no favor towards the English. George Croghan reported that he had lost his storehouses and their contents at Pine Creek, Logstown, Muskingum and the newly-built storehouse at Lower Shawneetown that he shared with William Trent and Robert Callender: "One large House on the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the River Scioto, where the Shawanese had built their new Town, called the Lower Shawanese Town, which House we learn by the Indians is now in the possession of a French Trader." Croghan's cornfields, canoes and bateaux were also confiscated and turned over to French traders by the Shawnees.