Logan imputed the whole to Cresap in his war note and peace-speech: the Indians gene- rally imputed it to Cresap: Lord Dunmore and his officers imputed it to Cresap: the country with one accord^ imputed it to him: and whether he were innocent y let the universal verdict now declare.
C 46 ] The declaration of John Sappington, received after the publication of the preceding Appendix, I, JOHN SAPPINGTON, declare myfelf to be intimately acquainted with all the circumftances refpe<£\;ing the deftruftion of Logan's family, and do give in the following narrative, a true ftatemenf of that affair.
Logan's family (if it was his family) was not killed by Crefap, nor with his knowledge, nor by his confent, but by the Great-houfes and their aflbciates. They were killed 30 miles above Wheeling, near the mouth of Yellow Creek. Logan's camp was on one fide of the river Ohio, and the houfe, where the murder was committed, oppofite to it on the other fide. They had encamped there only four or five days, and during that time had lived peaceably and neighbourly with the whites on the oppofite fide, until the very day the affair happened. A little before the period alluded to, letters had been received by the inhabitants from a man of great influence in that country, and who was then I believe at Capteener, informing them that war was at hand, and defiring them to be on their guard. In confequence of thofe letters and other rumours of the fame import, almoft all the inhabit- ants fled for fafety into the fettlements. It was at the houfe of one Baker the murder was committed. Baker was a man who fold rum, and the In- dians had made frequent vifits at his houfe, induced, probably, by their fondnefs for that liquor. He had been particularly defired by Crefap to remove and take away his rum, and he was adlually preparing to move at the time of the murder. The evening before a fquaw came over to Baker's houfe, and by her crying feemed to be in great diftrefs. The caufe of her uneafinefs being afkcd, (he refufed to tell ; but getting Baker's wife alone, ftie told her, that the Indians were