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258 on that evening heard repeated conversations concerning an extraordinary speech made at the treaty, or sent there by a chieftain of the Indians named Logan, and heard several attempts at a rehearsal of it. The speech as rehearsed excited the particular attention of said William, and the most striking members of it were impressed on his memory.

And he declares that when Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia were published, and he came to peruse the same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there set forth, as being substantially the same, and accordant with the speech he heard rehearsed in the camp as aforesaid. Signed,

Danville, December 18th, 1799.&emsp; We certify that Colonel William M'Kee this day signed the original certificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our presence.

“'s speech, delivered at the treaty, after the battle in which Col. was killed in 1774.”

[Here follows a copy of the speech, agreeing verbatim with that printed in Dixon and Hunter's Virginia Gazette of February 4, 1775, under the Williamsburg head. At the foot is this certificate.]

“The foregoing is a copy taken by me when a boy at school, in the year 1775, or at the farthest in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket book, containing papers and manuscripts of that period. STEVENS THOMPSON MASON.&emsp; January 20th, 1798.”

A copy of speech given by the late General, who fell in the battle of Trenton, January, 1776, to , Esquire, of Fredericksburg, in Virginia, upwards of 20 years ago, (from the date of February, 1798,) communicated through , Esquire. “The of Logan, a Shawanese chief, to Lord Dunmore.” [Here follows a copy of the speech, agreeing verbatim with that in the Notes on Virginia.]