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358 Indian reports concerning Logan, after the death of his family, ran to this; that he exerted himſelf during the Shawnee war (then ſo called) to take all the revenge he could, declaring he had loſt all confidence in the white people. At the time of negociation, he declared his reluctance in laying down the hatchet, not having (in his opinion) yet taken ample ſatisfaction; yet, for the ſake of the nation, he would do it. His expreſſions, from time to time, denoted a deep melancholy. Life (ſaid he) had become a torment to him: he knew no more what pleaſure was: He thought it had been better if he had never exiſted, &c. &c. Report further ſtates, that he became in ſome meaſure delirious, declared he would kill himſelf, went to Detroit, drank very freely, and did not ſeem to care what he did, and what became of himſelf. In this condition he left Detroit, and, on his way between that place and Miami, was murdered. In October, 1781, (while as priſoner on my way to Detroit,) I was ſhown the ſpot where this ſhall have happened. Having had an opportunity ſince laſt June of ſeeing the Rev. David Zeiſberger, ſenior, miſſionary to the Delaware nation of Indians, who had reſided among the ſame on the Muſkinghum, at the time when the murder was committed on the family of Logan, I put the following queſtions to him. 1. Who he underſtood it was that had committed the murder on Logan's family? And ſecondly, whether he had any knowledge of a ſpeech ſent to lord Dunmore by Logan, in conſequence of this affair, &c. To which Mr. Zeiſberger's anſwer was: That he had, from that time when this murder