In the Current of the Revolution 163 



Among the former was the head chief, a famous 

 warrior; his death so discouraged the Indians that 

 they straightway returned home with their scalps 

 and plunder, resisting McKee's entreaty that they 

 would first attack Boonesbo rough. 



One war party carried off Logan's family; but, 

 Logan, following swiftly after, came on the savages 

 so suddenly that he killed several of their number, 

 and rescued all his own people unhurt. 72 



Often French Canadians, and more rarely tories, 

 accompanied these little bands of murderous plun- 

 derers 73 besides the companies of Detroit rangers 

 who went with the large war parties, and they 

 were all armed and urged on by the British at De- 

 troit. One of the official British reports to Lord 

 George Germaine, made on October 23d of this year, 

 deals with the Indian war parties employed against 

 the Northwestern frontier. "Many smaller Indian 

 parties have been very successful. ... It would 

 be endless and difficult to enumerate to your Lord- 

 ship the parties that are continually employed upon 



MSS. show that it was in September. Marshall is as valuable 

 for early Kentucky history as Haywood for the correspond- 

 ing periods in Tennessee ; but both one and the other write 

 largely from tradition, and can never be followed when they 

 contradict contemporary reports. 



" Bradford MSS. 



73 At this very time a small band that had captured a family 

 in the Kanawha valley were pursued fifty miles, overtaken, 

 several killed and wounded, and the prisoners recaptured, by 

 Col. Andrew Donelly, mentioned in a previous note; it con- 

 sisted of two French and eight Indians, Virginia State Papers 

 I, 601. 



