who killed a Shawnese chief and other Indians^ yet he was not present when his relations were killed at Baker's, near the mouth of Tellow Creek on the Ohio; that this Deponent on his return to camp delivered the speech to Lord Dunmore ; and that the murders perpetrated as aboi)e ivere consi- dered as ultimately the cause of the war of 1174!, commonly called Cressap's %var.
JOHN GIBSON. Sworn and I'ubfcribed the 4th April 1800, at Pittltuigj before me, JER. BARKER.
C '7 ] Extraft of a letter from Col. EBENEZER ZANE, to the honourable JOHN BROWN, one of the fenators in Congrefs from Kentucky j dated Wheeling, Feb. 4th, 1800, I was myself^ with many others, in the practice of making impro'oements on lands upon the Ohio^ for the purpose of acquiring rights to the same.
Being on the Ohio at the mouth of Sandy Creek, in company %vith many others, news circulated that the Indians had robbed some of the Land jobbers.
This news induced the people generally to ascend the Ohio. I was among the number. On our arri'^al at the Wheeling, being informed tbat there were two Indians with some traders near and aboiic Wheeling, a proposition was made by the then captain Michael Cresap to way lay and kill the Indians upon the river. This measure I opposed with much violence, alledging that the killing of those Indians might involve the country in a war. But the oppo- site party prevailed., and proceeded up the Ohio with captain Cresap at their head.
In a short time the party returned, and also the traders., in a canoe; but there were no Indians in the company. I enquired what had become of the Indians., and was informed by the traders and Cre- sap''s party that they hadfallen overboard, Iexam- ined the canoe., and saw much fresh blood and some bullet holes in the canoe. This fully convinced me that the party had killed the two Indians., and thrown them into the river.