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Rh The certificate of, of Shelby county, Kentucky, communicated by the Hon. Judge, of Kentucky. In the year 1774, I lived on the waters of Short Creek, a branch of the Ohio, twelve miles above Wheeling. Sometime in June or in July of that year, Captain Michael Cresap raised a party of men, and came out under control Colonel M'Daniel, of Hampshire county, Virginia, who commanded a detachment against the Wappotommaka towns on the Muskinghum. I met with Captain Cresap, at Redstone fort, and entered his company. Being very well acquainted with him, we conversed freely; and he, among other conversations, informed me several times of falling in with some Indians on the Ohio some distance below the mouth of Yellow Creek, and killed two or three of them; and that this murder was before that of the Indians by Greathouse and others, at Yellow Creek. I do not recollect the reason which Captain Cresap assigned for committing the act, but never understood that the Indians gave any offence. Certified under my hand this 15th day of November, 1799, being an inhabitant of Shelby county, and State of Kentucky. JACOB NEWLAND.&emsp;

The certificate of, a merchant in Fredericksburg, Virginia; communicated by, Esq. of Mansfield, near Fredericksburg, who, in the letter accompanying it, says, “Mr. John Anderson has for many years past been settled in Fredericksburg, ''in the mercantile line. I have known him in prosperous'' ''and adverse situations. He has always shown the greatest degree'' ''of equanimity, his honesty and veracity are unimpeachable. These'' things can be attested by all the respectable part of the town and neighborhood of Fredericksburg.” Mr. John Anderson, a merchant in Fredericksburg, says, that in the year 1774, being a trader in the Indian country, he was at Pittsburg, to which place he had a cargo brought up the river in a boat, navigated by a Delaware Indian and a white man. That on their return down the river, with a cargo, belonging to Messrs. Butler, Michael [1] Cresap fired on the boat, and killed the Indian, after which two men of the name of Gatewood, and others of the name of Tumblestone, who