and constantly impressing on him not to attempt to run away ; that in these conversations he always charged capt. Michael Cresap with the murder of his family •* that on his arrival in the town, which C 29 2 was on the IS tb of July, he was tied to a stake ^ and a great debate arose whether he should not he burnt; Logan insisted on hanging him adopted, while others contended to burn him: that at length Logan pre- ijailed^ tied a belt of wampum round him as the mark of adoption, loosed him from the post and carried him to the cabin of an old squaw, where Logan pointed out a person who he said was this subscribers cousin; and he afterwards understood that the old woman was his aunt^ and two others his brothers, and that he now stood in the place of a warrior of the family who had bee?i killed at Tellow creek: that about three days after this Logan brought him a piece of paper, and told him he must W7'ite a letterfor him, which he meant to carry and leave in some house where he should kill somebody;
that he made 71k with gun-powder, and the subscri- ber proceeded to write the letter by his direction^ ad- dressing captain Michael Cresap in it, and that the purport of it was, to ask '' %vhy he had killed his people? That some time before they had killed his people at some place (the name of which the subscri- berforgetsJ vdhich he had forgiven; but since that he had killed his people again at Tellow creek^ and taken his cousin^ a little girl^ prisoner; that there- fore he must %var against the whites; but that he %)ould exchange the subscriber for his cousiny And signed it with Logan s name, which letter Logan took and set out again to war ; and the contents of this letter, as recited by the subscriber, calling to mind^ that stated by Judge Innes to have been left, C 30 3 tied to a %var club^ in a house y 'where a family ^^as murdered, and that being read to the subscriber, he recognises it, and declares he 'uerily believes it to ha've been the identical letter which he wrote, and supposes he was mistaken in stating as he has done before from memory, that the offer of the exchange was proposed in the letter; that it is probable it was only promissed him by Logan, but not put in the letter; while he was with the