/ William Huston of Washington county, in the State ofPennsyhania^ do hereby certify to whom it may concern^ that in the year 1774 , / resided at Catfshes camp^ on the main path from Wheeling to Redstone: that Michael Cresap^ who resided on or near the Potowmac river, on his ivay up from the river Ohio, at the head of a party of armed men^ lay some time at my cabbin.
I had previously heard the report of Mr. Cresap 2 having killed some Indians, said to be the relations of '•'Logan'' an Indian Chief In a variety of con versations with several of Cresap*s party , they boasted of the deed ; and that in the presence of their chief They acknowledged they hadfired first on the Indians, They had with them one man on a litter^ who was in the skirmish.
C 20 2 I do further certify thaty from njohat I learned from the party themsehes, I then formed the opi- nion, and ha'ue not had any reason to change the opi- nion since, that the killing, on the part of the "whites^ 3 was what Ideem the grossest murder. Ifurther cer- tify that some of the party, who afterwards killed some %)omen and other Lidians at Bakefs Bottom, also lay at my cabbin, on their march to the interior part ofthe country ; they had with them a little girl, whose life had been spared by the interference of some more humane than the rest. If necessary I will make afidamt to the above to be true. Certi- fied at Washington, this IS th day of April, Anno JDomini, 1798, WILLIAM HUSTON.
The Certificate of JACOB NEWLAND, of Shelby County, Kentucky, communicated by the Honorable Judge Inncs, of Kentucky.
In theyear 1774, I lived on the waters of Short Creek, a branch of the Ohio, 12 miles above Wheeling. Sometime in June or in July of that year, capt. Michael Cresap raised a party of men, and came out under col. M'-Daniel, ofHampshire County, Virginia, %vho commanded a detachment against the Wappotommaka towns on the Muskinghum, I