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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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Dear Sir,

  1. The maffacreat Baker's bottom, on the Ohio, op ofite the mouth of Yellow Creek, where were other relations of Logan. 4. Of thofe killed at the fame place, coming in canoes to the relief of their friends. I place the numbers f , 2, 3, 4, againft certain paragraphs of the evidence, to indicate the particular murder to which the paragraph relates, and prefent alfo a fmall Iketch or map of the principal fcenes of thefe butcheries, for their more ready comprehenfion.

Extraft of a Letter from the honourable Judge INNES, of Frankfort in Kentucky, to THOMAS JEFFERSON, dated Kentucky, near Frank- fort, March 2d, 1799.

/ recollect to haiie seen Logan's speech in 1775, in one of the public prints. That Logan conceived Cresap to be the author of the ?7iurder at Tellow Creek^ it is in my power to give, perhaps^ a more particular information, than any other person you can apply to.

In 1774 / lived in Fincastle county, novo divided into Washington^ Montgomery and part of Wythe, Being intimate in CoL Preston's family^ I happened in July to be at his

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