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tion that I have to treat ; and, perhaps, it will not be 

 easy to discuss it, without wounding the feelings of the 

 friends of some of the persons whose names I am to men- 

 tion. I am far from intending to do this. I was a child 

 in 1774 : of Cresap, or of his family, I knew nothing 

 until eleven years after this period* : I have no enmity 

 towards them : it is probable that they have never heard ' 

 of me. In regard to Cresap and his relations, therefore, 

 I may be supposed to be not incapable of discussing 

 the question in a friendly, and dispassionate, if not in an 

 able, manner. 



A Major Rogers was the friend of my father. I was 

 not born until many years after the date of Lonan's 

 speech : with this major, who, I believe, is now dead, 

 I never had any acquaintance. Of his friends I know 

 nothing. Of Cresap and of Rogers, therefore, I may say, 

 what Tacitus says of three of the Roman emperors : 



* When I was at the small village of Old-Town, or as it is com- 

 monly laid down in the maps by the name of" Cresaps," near the 

 river Potomack, in Maryland, in the month of May, 1783, 1 lodged 

 next door to a Colonel Cresap. This gentleman had once been a 

 distinguished warrior against the Indians ; he still, I was told, 

 retained an aversion to the Indian name, and was now blind, and 

 more than one hundred years old. This Colonel Cresap was, un- 

 questionably, a member of the same family as the Cresap who fought 

 against the Indians in 1774 ; but I do not suppose, that he was the 

 same person ; probably he was the fatui.u of the Cresap whom 

 Logan accused of destroying his family, and the Cresap who is often 

 mentioned in the history of the Indian wars of 1754, 1755, 8cc. 



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