Pursuing these examples \ Daniel Great-house and one Tomlinson, who lived on the opposite side of the river from the Indians, and were in habits of friendship with them, collected at the house ofPolke * Second murder on Grave creek.
f Maffacre at Baker's Bottom, oppofite Yellow Creek, by Great-houfe.
C 43 ] on Cross creek, about \^ miles from Baker''s Bottom a party of 32 men. Their object was to attack a hunting encampment of Indians, consisting of men^ women and children, at the mouth of Tellow creek, some distance abo'ue WheeUng,—They proceeded, and when arrived near Bakers Bot 10712, they concealed themselves, and Great-house crossed the river to the Indian camp. Being among them as a friend he counted them, andfound them too strong for an open attack with his force. JVhile here, he was cautioned by one of the women tiot to stay, for that the Indian men were drinking^ and haviJig heard of Cresap'^s murder of their relations at Grave creek, were angry, and she pressed him in a friendly manner, to go home; whereupon, after inviting them to come over and drink, he returned to Baker s^ which wa$ a tavern., and desired that when any of them should come to his house he would give them as much rum as they would drink. When his plot was ripe and a sufficient number ofthem were collected at Baker s and intoxicated, he and his party fell on them and massacred the whole., except a little girl, whom they preserved as a prisoner. Among these was the very woman who had saved his life, by pressing him to retire from the drunken wrath of her friends , when he was spying their camp at Tellow creek. Either she herself, or some other of the murdered women, was the sister of Logan^ very big with child, and inhumanly and indecently butchered; and there were others of his relations whofell here.
The party on the other side of the river, ^ alarm-- edfor their friends at Bakefs^ on hearing the report of the guns s manned two ca?2oes and se?it them over They were received, as they approached the shore by a well