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348 and told him he muſt write a letter for him, which he meant to carry and leave in ſome houſe where he ſhould kill ſomebody; that he made ink with gunpowder, and the ſubſcriber proceeded to write the letter by his direction, addreſſing capt. Michael Creſap in it and that the purport of it was, to aſk “why he had killed his people? That ſome time before they had killed his people at ſome place (the name of which the ſubſcriber forgets) which he had forgiven; but ſince that he had killed his people again at Yellow creek, and taken his couſin, a little girl, priſoner; that therefore he muſt war againſt the whites; but that he would exchange the ſubſcriber for his couſin.” And ſigned it with Logan's name, which letter Logan took and ſet out again to war; and the contents of this letter, as recited by the ſubſcriber, calling to mind that ſtated by judge Innes, to have been left tied to a war club, in a houſe where a family was murdered, and that being read to the ſubſ c riber, he recogniſes it, and declares he verily believes it to have been the identical letter which he wrote, and ſuppoſes he was miſtaken in ſtating as he had done before from memory, that the offer of the exchange was propoſed in the letter; that it is probable it was only promiſed him by Logan, but not put in the letter; 3 that while he was with the old woman, ſhe repeatedly endeavored to make him ſenſible that ſhe had been of the party at Yellow creek, and, by ſigns, ſhewed how they decoyed her friends over the river to drink, and when they were reeling and tumbling about, tomahawked them all, and that whenever ſhe entered on this ſubject ſhe was thrown into the