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Rh to have been the perpetrator of it. I know that he deſpiſed and hated the Greathouſes ever afterwards on account it. I was intimately acquainted with general Gibſon, and ſerved under him during the late war. I have a diſcharge from him now lying in the land office at Richmond, to which I refer any perſon for my character, who might be diſpoſed to ſcruple my veracity. I was likewiſe at the treaty held by lord Dunmore with the Indians at Chelicothe. As for the ſpeech ſaid to have been delivered by Logan on that occaſion, it might have been, or might not, for any thing I know, as I never heard of it till long afterwards. I do not believe that Logan had any relations killed except his brother. Neither of the Squaws who were killed was his wife. Two of them were old women, and the third, with her child which was ſaved, I have the beſt reaſon in the world to believe was the wife and child of general Gibſon. I know he educated the child, and took care of it, as if it had been his own. Whether Logan had a wife or not, I cannot ſay; but it is probable that as he was a chief, he conſidered them all his people. All this I am ready to be qualified to at any time. JOHN SAPPINGTON.&emsp;
 * Atteſt,, Junr.
 * Madiſon County, Feb. 13th, 1800.

I do certify further that the above named John Sappington told me, at the ſame time and place at which he gave me the above narrative, that he himſelf was the man who ſhot the brother of