directed fire from Great-house's party which killed some, voounded others, and obliged the rest to put back. Baker tells us there ivere twelve killedt and six or eight ivounded.
This commenced the war, of which Logan''s war- club and note left in the house of a murderedfamily ^ was the notification. In the course of it, during the ensuing summer .^ great numbers of innocent men^ women and children, fell victims to the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians, till it was arrested in the autumn following by the battle at Point-Flea- sant and the pacification with Lord Dunmore^ at which the speech of Logan was delivered.
Of the genuineness of that speech nothing need be said. It %vas known to the camp where it was deli- vered; it was given out by Lord Dunmore and his officers; it ran through the public papers of these states; was rehearsed as an exercise at schools: pub- lished in the papers and periodical works of Europe;
and all this, a dozen years before it was copied into the Notes on Virginia, In fine, General Gibson con- eludes the question for ever^ by declaring that he received it from Logan's hand, delivered it to Lord Dunmore, translated it for him^ and that the copy in the Notes on Virginia is a faithful copy.
- Fourth murder by Great-houfe.
C 45 ] 7he popular account of these transactions^ as stated in the Notes on Virginia ^ appears y on collecting exact information y imperfect and erroneous in its details. It was the belief of the day; but how far its errors were to the prejudice ofCresap, the reader will now judge. That he, and those under him, murdered two Indians above Wheeling ; that they murdered a larger number at Grave-creek, among whom were a part of the family and relations of Logan., cannot be questioned; and as little that this led to the massacre of the rest of the family at Telloiv creek