Monongahela river, in the county then called. West Augusta, and being in his field on the 12th of July, with two other men, they were surprised by a party of eight Indians, who shot down one of the others and made himself and the remaining one prisoners; this subscriber's wife and four children having been previously.conveyed by him for safety to a fort about 24 miles off; that the principal Indian of the party which took them was captain Logan; that Logan spoke English well, and very soon manifested a friendly disposition to this subcriber, and told him to be of good heart, that he would not be killed, but must go with him to his town, where he would probably be adopted in some of their families; but above all things that he must not attempt to run away; that in the course of the journey to the Indian town he generally endeavoured to keep close to Logan, who had a great deal of conversation with him, always encouraging him to be cheerful and without fear; for that he would not be killed, but should become one of them; and constantly impressing on him not to attempt to run away; that in these conversations he always charged capt. Michael Cresap with the murder of his family that on his arrival in the town, which was on the 18th of July, he was tied to a stake, and a great debate arose whether he should not be burnt; Logan insisted on having him adopted, while others contended to burn him that at length Logan prevailed, tied a belt of wampum round him as the mark of adoption, loosed him from the post and carried him to the cabin of an old squaw, where Logan

pointed out a person who he said was this sub. criber's cousin; and he afterwards understood that the old woman was his aunt, and two others his brothers, and that he now stood in the place of a warrior of the family who had been killed at Yellow creek: that about three days after this Logan brought him a piece of paper, and told him he must write a letter for him, which he meant to carry and leave in some house where he should kill somebody; that he made ink with gun-powder, and the subscriber proceeded to write the letter by his direction, addressing captain Michael Cresap in it, and that the purport of it was, to ask why he had killed his people? That some time before they had killed his people at some place (the name of which the subscriber forgets) which he had forgiven; but since that he had killed his people again at Yellow creek, and taken his cousin, a little girl, prisoner; that therefore he must war against the whites; but that he would exchange the subscriber for his cousin." And signed it with Logan's name, which letter Logan took and set out again to war; and the contents of this. letter, as recited by the subscriber, calling to mind, that stated by Judge Innes to have been left, tied to a war club, in a house, where a family was murdered, and that being read to the subscriber, be recognises it, and declare she verily believes it to have been the identical letter which he wrote, and supposes he was mistaken in stating as he has done before from memory, that the offer of the exchange was proposed in the letter; that it is probable it was only promissed him by Logan, but not put in the letter;

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while he was with the old woman, she repeatedly endeavored to make him sensible that by signs, shewed how they decoyed her friends she had been of the party at Yellow creek, and, over the river to drink, and when they were reeling and tumbling about, tomahawked them all, and that whenever she entered on this subject she was thrown into the most violent agitations, and hat he afterwards understood that, amongst the Indians killed at Yellow creek, was a sister of Logan, very big with child, whom they ripped open, and stuck on a pole : that he continued with the Indians till the month of Novetiver, when was released in consequence of the peace made by them with Lord Dunmore that while he remained with them, the Indians in general were very kind to him; and especially those who were his adopted relations, but above all, the old woman and family in which he lived, who served him with every thing in their power, and never asked, or even suffered him to do any labor, seeming in truth to consider and respect him, as the friend they had lost. All which several matters and things, so far as they are stated to be of his own knowledge, this subscriber solemnly declares to be true, and so far as they are stated on information from others, he believes them to be true. Given and declared under his hand at Philadelphia, this 28th day of February, 1800.

WILLIAM ROBINSON.

The deposition of Col. William M'Kee, of Lincoln County, Kentucky, communicated by the hon. John 3.own, one of the Senators in Congress from Kentucky.

Colonel William McKee of Lincoln county declareth, that in autumin 1774, he commanded as a captain in the Bottetourt Regiment under col. Andrew Lewis, afterwards Gen. Lewis: and fought in the battle at the mouth of Kanhawa, on the 10th of October in that year. That after the battle, col. Lewis marched the militia across the Ohio, and proceeded towards the Shawnee Towns on Sciota; but before they reached the Towns, Lord Dunmore, who was commander in chief of the army, and had, with a large part thereof bewached Jitio about Hockhockin, when the battle was fought, overtook the militia, and informed them of his hav ing since the battle concluded a Treaty with the Indians; upon which the whole army re. turned.

And the said William declareth that, on the evening of that day on which the junction of the troops took place, he was in company with Lord Dunmore and several of his officers, and also conversed with several who had been with Lord Dunmore at the Treaty; said William, on that evening, heard repeated conversations concerning an extraordinary speech made at the Treaty, or sent there by a chieftain of the Indians named Logan, and heard several attempts at a rehearsal of it. The speech as rehearsed excited the particular attention of said William, and the most striking members of it were impressed on his memory.

And he declares that when Thomas Jefferson's notes on Virginia were published, and he

came to peruse the same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there set forth, as be, ing substantially the same, and accordant with the Speech he heard rehearsed in the camp as

aforesaid.

Signed,

WILLIAM M.KEE.

Danville, December 18, 1799.

We certify that Col. William M'Kee this day signed the original centificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our presence.

JAMES SPEED, jun.

J. H. DEWEES.

The Certificate of the Honorable STEVENS THOMPSON MASON, one of the Senators in Congress from the State of Virginia. "LOGAN's Speech, delivered at the Treaty, after the Battle in which Col. LEWIS was killed in 1774."

[Here follows a copy of the speech agreeing. verbatim with that printed in Dixon and Hunter's Virginia Gazette of February 4, 1775, under the Williamsburg head. At the foot is this certificate.]

The foregoing is a copy taken by me, when a boy at school, in the year 1775, or at farthest in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket-book, containing papers and manuscripts of that period..

A

STEVENS THOMSON MASON. 1January 20th, 1798."

copy of LOGAN Speech given by the late General MERCER, who fell in the battle of Trenton, January 1776, to LEWIS WILLIS, Esquire, of Fredericksburg, in Virginia, upwards of 20 years ago, (from the date of February 1798) communicated through MANN PAGE, Esquire.

"The SPEECH of LOGAN, a Shawanese chief, to Lord Dunmore.