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364 The declaration of, received after the publication of the preceding Appendix.

I,, declare myſelf to be intimately acquainted with all the circumſtances reſpecting the deſtruction of Logan's family, and do give in the following narrative a true ſtatement of that affair. Logan's family (if it was his family) was not killed by Creſap, nor with his knowledge, nor by his conſent, but by the Greathouſes and their aſſociates. They were killed 30 miles above Wheeling, near the mouth of Yellow creek. Logan's camp was on one ſide of the river Ohio, and the houſe, where the murder was committed, oppoſite to it on the other ſide. They had encamped there only four or five days, and during that time had lived peaceably and neighborly with the whites on the oppoſite ſide, until the very day the affair happened. A little before the period alluded to, letters had been received by the inhabitants from a man of great influence in that country, and who was then I believe at Capteener, informing them that war was at hand, and deſiring them to be on their guard. In conſequence of theſe letters and other rumours of the ſame import, almoſt all the inhabitants fled for ſafety into the ſettlements. It was at the houſe of one Baker the murder was committed. Baker was a man who ſold rum, and the Indians had made frequent viſits at his houſe, induced, probably, by their fondneſs for that liquor. He had been particularly deſired by Creſap to remove and take away his rum, and he was actually preparing to move at the time of the murder. The evening before a ſquaw came over to Baker's