 The rivalry between Pennsylvania and Virginia over the site of Pittsburgh increased these unsettled circumstances.Scouts returning to Fort Pitt reported that war was inevitable, and John Connolly sent word for settlers in outlying settlements to be on their guard for an attack.Yellow Creek is a small tributary of the Ohio River located on the western (Ohio) bank about forty miles above Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) and about west northwest of Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh).