at the same place, coming in canoes to the relief of their friends. 1 place the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, against certain paragraphs of the evidence, to indicate the particular murder to which the paragraph relates.

Extract of a letter from the honorable Judge INNES, of Frankfort in Kentucky, to THOMAS JEFFERSON, dated Kentucky, near Frankfort, March 2d, 1799.

I recollect to have seen Logan's speech in 1775, in one of the public prints. That Logan conceived Cresap to be the author of the murder at Yellow Creek, it is in my power to give, perhaps, a more particular information, than any other person you can apply to.

In 1774 I lived in Fincastle county, now divided into Washington, Montgomery and part of Wythe. Being intimate in Col. Preston's family, I happened in July to be at his house, when an Express was sent to him as the County Lieut. requesting a guard of the militia to be ordered out for the protection of the inhabitants residing low down on the north fork of Holston river. The Express brought with him a War Club, and a note which was left tied to it at the house of one Robertson, whose family were cut off by the Indians, and gave rise for the application to Col. Preston, of which the following is a copy, then taken by me in my memorandum book.

"Captain Cresap,

"What did you kill my people on Yellow "Creek for? The white people killed my kin, at

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Conestoga, a great while ago; and I thought nothing of that. But you killed my kin again σε on Yellow-Creek, and took my Cousin Pri"soner. Then I thought I must kill too; and "I have been three times to war since; but the "Indians are not angry: only myself.

- July 21st, 1774:

Captain JOHN LOGAN.”

With great respect, I am Dear Sir,
Your most obedient servant
HARRY INNES.

Allegheny County, ss.

Before me the subscriber, a justice of the. peace in and for said county, personally appeared John Gibson, Esquire, an associate Judge of same county, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he traded with the Shawnese and other tribes of Indians then settled on the Siota in the year 1773, and in the beginning of the year 1774, and that in the month of April of the same year, he left the same Indian towns, and came to this place, in order to procure some goods and provisions, that he remained here only a few days, and then set out in company with a certain Alexander Blaine and M. Ellot by water to return to the towns on Siota, and that one evening as they were drifting in their Canoes near the Long Reach on the Ohio, they were hailed by a number of white men on the South West Shore, who requested them to put ashore, as they had disagreeable news to inform them of; that we then landed on shore; and found amongst the party, a Maj. Angus M'Donald from West Chester, a Dócter Woods. from same

place, and a party as they said of 150 men,
We then asked the news. They informed us
that some of the party who had been taking up,
and improving lands near the Big Kanhawa ri-
ver, had seen another party of white men, who
informed them that they and some others had
fell in with a party of Shawnese, who had been
hunting on the South West side of the Ohio,
that they had killed the whole of the Indian par-
ty, and that the others had gone across the coun-
try to Cheat river with the horses and plunder,
the consequence of which they apprehended
would be an Indian war, and that they were fly-
ing away.
On making enquiry of them when
this murder should have happened, we found
that it must have been some considerable time
before we left the Indian towns, and that there
was not the smallest foundation for the report,
as there was not a single man of the Shawnese,
but what returned from hunting long before this
should have happened.

We then informed them that if they would agree to remain at the place we then were, one of us would go to Hock Hockung river with some of their party, where we should find some of our people making Canoes, and that if we did not find them there, we might conclude that every thing was not right. Doctor Wood and another person then proposed going with me; the rest of the party seemed to agree, but said they would send and consult captain Cresap who was about two miles from that place. They sent off for him, and during the greatest part of the night they behayed in the most disorderly manner, threatning to kill us, and saying the damned traders were worse than the Indians and

ought to be killed. In the morning captain Michael Cresap came to the camp. I then gave him the information as above related. They then met in council, and after an hour or more captain Cresap returned to me, and informed that he could not prevail on them to adopt the proposal I had made to them, that as he had a great regard for captain R. Callender, a brother-in-law of mine with whom I was connected in trade, he advised me by no means to think of proceeding any further, as he was convinced the present party would fall on and kill every Indian they met on the river, that for his part he should not continue with them, but go right across the country to Red-Stone to avoid the consequences. That we then proceeded to Hocking and went up the same to the canoe place where we found our people at work, and after some days we proceeded to the towns on Siota by land, on our arrival there, we heard of the different murders committed by the party on their way up the Ohio.

This deponent further saith that in the year 1774, he accompanied Lord Dunmore on the expedition against the Shawnese and other Indians on the Siota, that on their arrival within 15 miles of the towns, they were met by a flag, and a white man of the name of Elliot, who informed Lord Dunmore that the chiefs of the Shawnese had sent to request his Lordship to halt his army and send in some person, who understood their language; that this deponent, at the request of Lord Dunmore and the whole of the officers with him, went in; that on his arrival at the towns, Logan the Indian, came

to where this deponent was sitting with the Corn-Stock, and other chiefs of the Shawnese, and asked him to walk out with him; that they went into a copse of wood, where they sat down, when Logan, after shedding abundance of tears, delivered to him the speech, nearly as related by Mr. Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia; that he the deponent told him then that it was not Col. Cresap who had murdered his relations, and that although his son captain Michael Cresap was with the party who killed a Shawnese chief and other Indians, yet he was not present when his relations were killed at Baker's, near the mouth of Yellow Creek on the Ohio; that this deponent on his return to camp delivered the speech to Lord Dunmore; and that the murders perpetrated as above were considered as ultimately the cause of the war of 1774, commonly called Cresap's

war.

Sworn and subscribed the 4th April,

1800, at Pittsburgh, before me,

JER. BARKER,

JOHN GIBSON.

Extract of a letter from Col. EBENEZER ZANE, to the hono:able JOHN BROWN, one of the Senators to Congress from Kentucky; dated Wheeling, Feb. 4th, 18co,

I was myself, with many others, in the practice of making improvements on lands upon the Ohio, for the purpose of acquiring rights to the same. Being on the Ohio at the mouth of San-, dy Creek, in company with many others, news circulated that the Indians had robbed some of the Land jobbers. This news induced the peo