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Rh which the deponent ſaw with the party after the ſlaughter; 4 that the Indians in the camp hearing the firing, manned two canoes, ſuppoſing their friends at Baker's to be attacked, as was ſuppoſed: the party under Greathouſe prevented their landing by a well directed fire, which did execution in the canoes; that Edward King ſhewed the deponent one of the ſcalps.—The deponent further ſaith, that the ſettlements near the river, broke up, and he the deponent immediately repaired to Catfiſh's camp, and lived ſome time with Mr. William Huſton; that not long after his arival, Creſap, with his party, returned from the Ohio, came to Mr. Huſton's and tarried ſometime: 2 that in various converſations with the party, and in particular with a Mr. Smith, who had one arm only, he was told that the Indians were acknowledged and known to be Logan's friends which they had killed, and that he heard the party ſay, that Logan would probably avenge their deaths.

They acknowledged that the Indians paſſed Creſap's encampment on the bank of the river in a peaceable manner, and encamped below him; 2 that they went down and fired on the Indians, and killed ſeveral; that the ſurvivors flew to their arms and fired on Creſap, and wounded one man, whom the deponent ſaw carried on a litter by the party; 3 that the Indians killed by Creſap were not only Logan's relations, but of the women killed at Baker's, one was ſaid and generally believed to be Logan's ſiſter. The deponent further ſaith, that on the relation of the attack by Creſap on the unoffending Indians, he exclaimed in their hearing, that it was an atrocious murder: on which Mr.