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352 [Here follows a copy of the ſpeech, agreeing verbatim with that in the Notes on Virginia.]

A copy of LOGAN'S SPEECH from the Notes on Virginia having been ſent to captain ANDREW RODGERS of Kentucky, he ſubjoined the following certificate.

In the year 1774 I went out with the Virginia volunteers, and was in the battle at the mouth of Canhawee, and afterwards proceeded over the Ohio to the Indian towns. I did not hear Logan make the above ſpeech; but, from the unanimous account of thoſe in camp, I have reaſon to think that ſaid ſpeech was delivered to Dunmore. I remember to have heard the very things contained in the above ſpeech, related by ſome of our people in camp at that time. ANDREW RODGERS.&emsp;

The declaration of Mr., for ſeveral years a miſſionary from the ſociety of Moravians, among the weſtern Indians. In the ſpring of the year 1774, at a time when the interior part of the Indian country all ſeemed peace and tranquil, the villagers on the Muſkinghum were ſuddenly alarmed by two runners (Indians,) who reported “that the Big Knife, (Virginians) had attacked the Mingo ſettlement on the Ohio, and butchered even the women with their children in their arms, and that Logan's family were among the ſlain.” A day or two after this, ſeveral Mingoes made their appearance: among whom were one or two wounded, who