coile6l who among my cotemporaries, of the fame circle of fbciety, and confequently of the fame recoiledlions, might ftili be alive. Three and twenty years of death and dif- periion had left very few. I remembered, however, that Gen. Gibfon was ftill living, and knew that he had been the tranllator of the fpeech. I wrote to him immediately. He, in anfwer, declares to me, that he was the very perfcn fent by Lord Dunmore to the Indian town; that, aiier he had delivered his meilage there, Logan took him out to a neighbouring wood ; far down v/itii him, and rehearfing, with tears, the cataftrophe of his family, gave him thrir ipeech ioi' Lord Dunmore 3 that he carried ic to Lord Dunmore; tranllated it for him; has turned to it in the Encyclopedia, as taken from [ s ] the Notes on Virginia, and finds that it was his tranflation I had ufed, with only two or three verbal variations of no importance. Thefe, I fuppofe, had arifen in the courfe of fucceffive copies. I cite Gen. Gibfon's letter by memory, not having it with me; but I am fure I cite it fubftantially right. It eftablifhes unqueftion- ably, that the fpeech of Logan is genuine; and that being eftabliflied, it is Logan himfelf who is author of all the important fa6ls. '' Col. Cre- '' fap/' fays he, '' in cold blood and unpro- ^' voked, murdered all the relations of Logan, '^ not fparing even my women and children.
'^ There runs not a drop of my blood in the *^ veins of any living creature." The perfon and the fa6t, in all its material circumftances, are here given by Logan himfelf. Gen. Gibfon, indeed, fays, that the title was miftaken ; that Cre- fap was a captain, and not a colonel. This was Logan's miftake. He alfo obferves, that it was on the Ohio, and not on the Kanhaway itfelf, that his family was killed. This is an error which has crept into the traditionary account ;
but furely of little moment in the moral view of the fubje(5l. The material queftion is ; was Logan's family murdered, and by whom.? That it was murdered has not, I believe, been denied ;
that it was by one of the Crefaps, Logan affirms.