158 Logan, Cresapy and Rogers. 



A second, and peiliaps more essential difterence in 

 the statements of Mr. Jefferson and the Abbe, relates to 

 the time in \vhich the supposed murder is said to have 

 been committed upon the family of Logan and Lonan. 

 Mr. Jefferson confidently refers the event to the year 

 1774, in the autumn of which year Logan is said to 

 have sent the speech to be delivered to Lord Dunmore*. 



The Abbe Robin refers the speech of Lonan to the 

 year 1754; that is twenty years earlier than the period 

 at which Logan is said to have transmitted his speech 

 to Lord Dunmorc. As I am not in possession of the 

 original work of the Abbe, I cannot pretend to say, that 

 the date is the same in this and in the translation made 

 at Philadelphia. It is probable, that an error may ha^'e 

 crept into the translation. It is not improbable, that the 

 Abbe himself lias committed a mistake : or possibly the 

 date was 1754, in the copy which was handed to him at 

 WiUiamsbursr. 



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We should not, for a moment, hesitate to believe, 

 that tlie copy communicated to Robin, and perhaps his 

 own work, referred the event to 1774, if it were not for 

 other material historical points, one f of which has al. 

 ready been mentioned, in which the two speeches differ 

 from each other. It may be observed, however, that 

 the year 1754 was, as well as the year 1774, a time of 

 war and trouble, during which murders of the Indians 

 by the whites, and murders of the M'hitcs by the Indiajis, 



* See Notes, Sic, pages 1 15, 1 16. 

 t Tl:e name of the Indian chief. 



