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ten with ferocious directness, as a kind of public 

 challenge or taunt to the man whom he wrongly 

 deemed to be the author of his misfortunes. It 

 ran as follows: 



"CAPTAIN CRESAP : 



"What did you kill my people on Yellow Creek 

 for? The white people killed my kin at Conestoga, 

 a great while ago, and I thought nothing of that. 

 But you killed my kin again on Yellow Creek, and 

 took my cousin prisoner. Then I thought I must 

 kill too; and I have been three times to war since; 

 but the Indians are not angry, only myself. 



"CAPTAIN JOHN LoGAN. 54 

 "July 21, 1774." 



There is a certain deliberate and bloodthirsty 

 earnestness about this letter which must have shown 

 the whites clearly, if they still needed to be shown, 

 what bitter cause they had to rue the wrongs that 

 had been done to Logan. 



The Shawnees and Mingos were soon joined by 

 many of the Delawares and outlying Iroquois, es- 

 pecially Senecas; as well as by the Wyandots and 

 large bands of ardent young warriors from among 

 the Algonquin tribes along the Miami, the Wabash, 

 and the Lakes. Their inroads on the settlements 

 were characterized, as usual, by extreme stealth and 



54 Jefferson MSS. Deposition of William Robinson, Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1800, and letter from Harry Innes, March 2, 1799, 

 with a copy of Logan's letter as made in his note-book 

 at the time. 



