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Thomas Jefferson compiles these notes in response to inquiries from a foreign official regarding the geography and state of Virginia. The text provides detailed descriptions of the region's boundaries, dimensions, and physical landscape as understood in the late eighteenth century.

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John Sappington.

Atteft, Samuel M<Kee, Junr.

[ 48 D Madifon County, Feb. I3t1i, 1800.

I do certify further that the above named John Sappington told me, at the fame time and place at which he gave me the above narrative, that he himfelf was the man who (hot the brother of Logan in the houfe as above re- lated, and that he likewife killed one of the Indians in one of the canoes, which came over from the oppofite fhore.

He likewife told me, that Crefap never faid an angry word to him about the matter, although he was frequently in company with Crefap, and indeed had been, and continued to be, in habits of intimacy with that gentleman, and was always befriended by him on every occafion. He further told me, that after they had perpetrated the murder, and were flying into the fettle- nients,he met with Crefap (if I recolleft right, at Redftone Old Fort;) and gave him a fcalp, a very large fine one, as he expreffed it, and adorned with filver. This fcalp, I think he told me, was the fcalp of Logan's brother j though as to this I am not abfoliitely certain.

Certified by SAMUEL M<KEE, Junr, SPEECH OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, Prefident of the United States, DELIVERED AT HIS INSTALMENT, MARCH 4f, 1801, AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

Friends and Fellow-Citizens, CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country^ I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow -citizens, which is here assembled^ to express my grateful thanks, for the favour with which they have been pleased to

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