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Rh Extract of a letter from the honorable judge of Frankfort in Kentucky to ; 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 with 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.

&emsp;“Captain Creſap,

“What did you kill my people on Yellow creek for? The white people killed my kin, at Coneſtoga, a great while ago; and I thought nothing of that. But you killed my kin again, on Yellow creek, and took my couſin priſoner. Then I thought I muſt kill too; and I have