C 4° D Indian reports concerning Logan, after the death of his family i ran to this; that he exerted himself during the Shaivanee war, (then so called) to take all the revenge he could, declaring he had lost all confidence in the white people. At the time ofnego- ciation, he declared his reluctance in laying down the hatchet, not hanging fin his opinion) yet taken ample satisfaction; yet, for the sake of the nation y he would do it. His expressions, from time to time, denoted a deep melancholy. Life (said he) had become a torment to him : He knew no more what pleasure was: He thought it had been better ifhe had nenier existed^ ^c.^c Reportfurther states, that he became in some measure delirious, declared he would kill himself went to Detroit, drank "oeryfreely, and did not seem to care what he did, and ivhat became of himself In this condition he left Detroit, and on his way between that place and Miami, was murdered. In October 1781, (while as prisoner on my way to Detroit,) I was shown the spot where this should have happened.
Haloing had an opportunity sijice last June ofseeing the Rev. David Zeisberger, senior, missonary to the Delaware nation of Indians, who had resided among the same on Muskingum, at the time when the murder was committed on the family of Logan, Iput the following questions to him. 1. Who be had understood it ivas that had committed the murder on Logan^s family? And secondly, whether he had any knowledge of a speech sent to lord Dunmore by Lo- gan, in consequence of this affair, ^c. To which Mr. Zeisberger^s answer was: That he had, from E 41 ] that time when this murder was committed, to the present day, firmly believed the common report fwhich he had neiier heard contradictedJ viz, that one Cresap was the author of the massacre; or that it was committed by his orders: and that he had known Logan as a boy^ hadfrequently seen him from that time^ and doubted not in the leasts