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346 On the 14th of November, 1799, I accidentally met upon the road Joſhua Baker, the perſon referred to in the certificate ſigned by Polke, 3 who informed me that the murder of the Indians in 1774, oppoſite the mouth of Yellow creek, was perpetrated at his houſe by 32 men, led on by Daniel Greathouſe; that 12 were killed and 6 or 8 wounded; among the ſlain was a ſiſter and other relations of the Indian chief Logan. Baker ſays captain Michael Creſap was not of the party; 1 that ſome days preceding the murder at his houſe, two Indians left him and were on their way home; that they fell in with captain Creſap and a party of land improvers on the Ohio, and were murdered, if not by Creſap himſelf, with his approbation; he being the leader of the party, and that he had the information from Creſap. HARRY INNES.&emsp;

William Robinſon, of Clarkſburg, in the county of Harriſon, and ſtate of Virginia, ſubſcriber to theſe preſents, declares that he was, in the year 1774, a reſident on the weſt fork of 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;