and killed feveral. The Indians returned the fire, and wounded
one of Crefap's party. Among the flain of the Indians were fome
of Logan's family. Colonel Zane indeed expreffes a doubt of it;
but it is affirmed by Huston and Chambers. Smith, one of the
murderers, faid they were known and acknowledged to be Logan's
friends, and the party themselves generally faid fo: boafted of it in
prefence of Crefap; pretended no provocation; and expreffed
their expectations that Logan would probably avenge their deaths.
Purfuing thefe examples, Daniel Greathouse and one Tomlin-
fon, who lived on the oppofite fide of the river from the Indians,
and were in habits of friendship with them, collected at the houfe of
Polke on crofs creek, about 16 miles from Baker's Bottom a party
of 32 men. Their object was to attack a hunting encampment of
Indians, confifting of men, women and children, at the mouth of
Yellow creek, fome diftance above Wheeling.-They proceeded,
and when arrived near Baker's Bottom, they concealed themfelves,
and Greathoufe croffed the river to the Indian camp. Being among
them as a friend, he counted them, and found them too strong for
an open
attack with his force. While here, he was cautioned by
one of the women not to ftay, for that the Indian men were drink-
ing, and having heard of Crefap's murder of their relations at Grave
creek, were angry, as fhe preffed him, in a friendly manner, to go
home; whereupon, after inviting them to come over and drink, he
returned to Baker's, which was a tavern, and desired that when any
of them should come to his house he would give them as much rum
as they would drink. When his plot was ripe and a fufficient num-
ber of them were collected at Baker's, and intoxicated, he and his
party fell on them and massacred the whole, except a little girl,
whom they preferved as a prifoner. Among these was the very woman
who had faved his life, by preffing him to retire from the drunk-
en wrath of her friends, when he was spying their camp at Yellow
creek. Either fhe herself, or fome other of the murdered women, was
the fifter of Logan, very big with child, and inhumanly and indecent.
ly butchered; and there were others of his relations who fell there.

Maffacre Bottom pofite Y low cree

Baker's

by Gre

house.

4thmurder by Greathouse.

The party on the other fide of the river, alarmed for their friends at Baker's, on hearing the report of the guns, manned two canoes and fent them over. They were received, as they approach ed the fhore, by a well directed fire from Greathouse's party, which killed fome, wounded others, and obliged the reft to put back. Baker tells us there were twelve killed, and fix or eight wounded.

This commenced the war, of which Logan's war-club and note left in the house of a murdered family, was the notification. In the course of it, during the enfuing fummer, great numbers of innocent men, women and children, fell victims to the tomahawk and fcalping knife of the Indians, till it was arrested in the autumn following by the battle at Point-pleafant and as the pacification with lord Dunmore, at which the speech of Logan was delivered.

Of the genuineness of that speech nothing need be faid. It was known to the camp where it was delivered: it was given out by lord Dunmore and his officers; it ran through the public papers of these ftates; was rchcarfed as an exercife at schools; published in the papers and periodical works of Europe; and all this, a dozen years before it was copied into the Notes on Virginia. In fine gen. Gibfon concludes the queftion for ever, by declaring that he received it from Logan's hand, delivered it to lord Dunmore, translated it for him, and that the copy in the Notes on Virginia is a faithful

copy.

The popular account of these transactions, as ftated in the Notes on Virginia, appears on collecting exact information, imperfect and erroneous in its details. It was the belief of the day; but how far its errors were the prejudice of Crefap the reader will now judge. That he and those under him, murdered two Indians above Wheeling that they murdered a larger number at Grave creek, among whom were a part of the family and relations of Logan, cannot be queftioned; and as little that this led to the maffacre of the reft of the family at Yellow creek. Logan imputed the whole to Crefap in his war-note and peace-speech; the Indians generally imputed it

to Crefap: Lord Dunmore and his officers imputed it to Crefap the country with one accord imputed it to him: and whether he were innocent let the univerfal verdict now declare."

The declaration of JOHN SAPPINGTON, received after the publication of the preceding Appendix.

I, JOHN SAPPINGTON, declare myfelf to be intimately acquainted with all the circumftances respecting the deftruction of Logan's family, and do give in the following narrative a true statement of that affair.

Logan's family (if it was his family) was not killed by Crefap, nor with his knowledge, nor by his confent, but by the Greathoufes and their affociates. They were killed 30 miles above

Wheeling, near the mouth of Yellow Creek. Logan's camp was on one fide of the river Ohio, and the house where the murder was committed, oppofite to it on the other fide. They had encamped there only four or five days, and during that time had lived peaceably and neighborly with the whites on the oppofite fide, until the very day the affair happened. A little before the period alluded to, letters had been received by the inhabitants from a man of great influence in that country, and who was then I believe at Capteener, informing them that war was at hand, and defiring them to be on their guard. In confequence of these letters and other rumours of the same import, almost all the inhabitants fled for fafety into the fettlements. It was at the houfe of one Baker the murder was committed. Baker was a man who fold rum, and the Indians had made frequent vifits at his house, induced, probably, by their fondnefs for that liquor. He had been particularly defired by Crefap to remove and take away his rum, and he was actually preparing to move at the time of the murder. The evening before, a squaw came over to Baker's house, and by her crying seemed to be in great diftrefs. The cause of her uneafiness being asked, she refused to tell; but getting Baker's wife alone, she told her, that the Indians were going to kill her and all her family the next day, that she loved her, did not wifh her to be killed, and therefore told her what was intended, that she might fave herself. In confequence of this information, Baker got a number of men to the amount of 21 to come to his house and they were all there before morning. A council was held, and it was determined, that the men should lie concealed in the back apartment; that if the Indians did come and behaved themselves peaceably, they should not be molested, but if not, the men were to fhew themselves and act accordingly. Early in the morning 7 Indians, 4 men and 3 fquaws, came over.-Logan's brother was one of them. They immediately got rum, and all, except Logan's brother, became very much intoxicated. At this time all the men were concealed, except the man of the house, Baker, and two others who ftaid out with him. Those Indians came unarmed. After fome time Logan's brother took down a coat and hat belonging to Baker's brother-in-law, who lived with him

up

and put them on, and fetting his arms a kimbo began to strut about, till at length coming up to one of the men, he attempted to strike him, faying "white man, son of a bitch." The white man, whom he treated thus, kept out of his way for fome time; but growing irritated he jumped to his gun, and shot the Indian as he was making to the door with the coat and hat on him. The men who lay concealed, then rufhed out and killed the whole of them, excepting one child, which I believe is yet alive. But before this happened, one with two, the other with five Indians, all naked, painted, and armed completely for war, were discovered to start from the shore on which Logan's camp was. Had it not been for this circumftance, the white men would not have acted as they did; but this confirmed what the fquaw had told before. The white men, having killed as aforefaid the Indians in the house, ranged themselves along the bank of the river, to receive the canoes. The canoe with the two Indians came near, being the foremost. Our men fired on them and killed them both. The other canoe then went back. After this two other canoes ftarted, the one containing 11, the other 7 Indians, painted and armed as the first. They attempted to land below our men ; but were fired upon, had one killed, and retreated, at the fame time firing back. To the best of my recollection there were three of the Greathouses engaged in this business. This is a true reprefentation of the affair from beginning to end. I was intimately acquainted with Crefap, and know he had no hand in that tranfaction. He told me himself afterwards at Redstone old fort, that the day before Logan's people were killed, he, with a fmall party, had an engagement with a party of Indians on Capteener, about 44 miles lower down, Logan's people were killed at the mouth of Yellow creek on the 24th of May, 1774, and on the 23d, the day before Crefap was engaged as already stated. I know likewife that he was generally blamea for it, and believed by all who were not acquainted with the circumftances, to have been the perpetrator of it. I know that he despised and hated the Greathouses ever afterwards on account of it. I was intimately acquainted with general Gibson, and served under him during the late war, I have a discharge from him now lying in the land office at Rich