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Rh 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 Bakers, 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.

Extract of a letter from col. EBENEZER ZANE, to the honorable JOHN BROWN, one of the ſenators in Congreſs from Kentucky; dated Wheeling, Feb. 4th, 1800.

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 Sandy creek, in company with many others, news circulated that the Indians had robbed ſome of the land jobbers. This news induced the people generally to aſcend the Ohio. I was among the number.