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362 This commenced the war, of which Logan's warclub and note left in the houſe of a murdered family, was the notification. In the courſe of it, during the enſuing ſummer, great numbers of innocent men, women and children, fell victims to the tomakawk and ſcalping knife of the Indians, till it was arreſted in the autumn following by the battle at Point-pleaſant and as the pacification with lord Dunmore, at which the ſpeech of Logan was delivered.

Of the genuineneſs of that ſpeech nothing need be ſaid. It was known to the camp where it was delivered: it was given out by lord Dunmore and his officers; it ran through the public papers of theſe dates; was rehearſed as an exerciſe at ſchools; publiſhed in the papers and periodical works of Europe; and all this, a dozen years before it was copied into the Notes on Virginia. In fine gen. Gibſon concludes the queſtion for ever, by declaring that he received it from Logan's hand, delivered it to lord Dunmore, tranſlated it for him, and that the copy in the Notes on Virginia is a faithful copy.

The pop b u lar account of theſe tranſactions, as ſtated in the Notes on Virginia, appears on collecting exact information, imperfect and erroneous in its details. It was the belief of the day; but how far its errors were to the prejudice of Creſap the reader will now judge. That he and thoſe under him, murdered two Indians above Wheeling: that they murdered a larger number at Grave creek, among whom were a part of the family and relations of Logan, cannot be queſtioned; and as little that this led to the maſſacre of the reſt of the family at Yellow creek. Logan imputed the