The Certificate of CHARLES POLKE, of Shelby County, in Ken- tucky, communicated by the hon. Judge Innes, of Kentucky, who in the letter inclofing it, together with Newland's certificate, and his own decla- ration of the information given him by Baker, fays, " I am well ac- quainted with Jacob Newland, he is a man of integrity. Charles Polke and Jofiiua Baker both fupport refpedlable charadlers."
About the latter end of April or beginning of May 1774', I lived on the ivaters of Cross creek, about 16 miles from Joshua Baker^ who lived on the Ohio^ opposite the mouth of Tellow creek. A ^ number of persons collected at my house, and pro- ceeded to the said Bakefs and murdered several Indians, among whom was a woman said to be the sister of the Indian chief, Logan. The principal leader of the party was Daniel Great-house. To the best of my recollection the cause which gave rise to the murder was, a general idea that the In- dia?is were meditating an attack on the frontiers.
i: 27 1 Capt. Michael Cresap was not of the party ; hut I recollect that some time before the perpetration of the above fact it was currently reported that capt^ Cresap had murdered some Indians on the Ohio, 2 one or two, some distance below Wheeling.
Certified by me^ an inhabitant of Shelby county and state of Kentucky^ this iSth day of November, CHARLES POLKE.
The Declaration of the hon. Judge INNES, of Frankfort, in Kentucky.
On the l^th of November^ 1799, I accidentally met upon the road Joshua Baker, the person re- ferred to in the certificate signed by Polke, %vho informed me that the murder of the Indiafis in 1774, opposite the