Council, and after an hour or more captain Cresap returned to 7ne, and informed that he could not prevail on them to adopt the proposal I had made to them, that as he had a great regardfor captain R. Callender^ a brother in law of mine with whom Iwas connected in trade, he advised me by no means to think of proceeding anyfurther^ as he was convinced the pre- sent party wouldfall on and kill every Indian they met on the river ^ thatfor his part he should not con- tinue with them, but go right across the country to Red-Stone to avoid the consequences. That we then proceeded to Hocking and went up the same to the canoe place where v^e found our people at work, and after some days we proceeded to the towns on Siota by land. On our arrival there, we heard of the different murders committed by the party on their way up the Ohio.
This Deponent further saith that in the year 1774, he accompanied Lord Dunmore on the expe- dition against the Shawnese and other Indians on the Siota, that on their arrival within 15 miles of the to'wns, they were met by a flag, and a white i: i6 3 man of the name of Elliot, who informed Lord Dwimore that the Chiefs of the Shawnese had sent to request his Lordship to halt his army and send in some person^ who understood their la7Jguage ;
that this Deponenty at the request of Lord Dtinmor and the whole of the officers with him, went in ;
that on his arrival at the towns ^ Logan^ the Indian^ came to where this deponent was sitting with the Corn-Stalky and the other chiefs of the Shawfiese, and asked him to walk out with him ; that they njoent into a copse of %vood, ivhere they sat down, when Logan, after shedding abundance of tears, deliiiered to him the speech, nearly as related by Mr.
Jefferson in his notes on the State of Virgi?iia ; that he the deponent told him then that it was not CoL Cressap who had murdered his relations, and that although his son captain Michael Cressap was with the party