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350 fought in the battle at the mouth of Kanhaway, on the 10th of October in that year. That after the battle, col. Lewis marched the militia acroſs the Ohio, and proceeded towards the Shawnee towns on Siota; but before they reached the towns, lord Dunmore, who was commander in chief of the army, and had, with a large party thereof, been up the Ohio about Hockhocking, when the battle was fought, overtook the militia, and informed them of his having ſince the battle concluded a treaty with the Indians; upon which the whole army returned.

And the ſaid William declareth that, on the evening of that day on which the junction of the troops took place, he was in company with lord Dunmore and ſeveral of his officers, and alſo converſed with ſeveral who had been with lord Dunmore at the treaty; ſaid William, on that evening, heard repeated converſation concerning an extraordinary ſpeech made at the treaty, or ſent there by a chieftain of the Indians named Logan, and heard ſeveral attempts at a rehearſal of it. The ſpeech as rehearſed excited the particular attention of ſaid William, and the moſt ſtriking members of it were impreſſed on his memory.

And he declares that when Thomas Jefferſon's Notes on Virginia were publiſhed, and he came to peruſe the ſame, he was ſtruck with the ſpeech of Logan as there ſet forth, as being ſubſtantially the ſame, and accordant with the ſpeech he heard rehearſed in the camp as aforeſaid.

WILLIAM M′KEE.&emsp;