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goods of a Spanish merchant in retaliation for 

 wrongs committed on American merchants by the 

 Spaniards. 



This failure was in small part offset by a success 

 ful expedition led by Logan at the same time against 

 the Shawnee towns. 53 On October 5th, he attacked 

 them with seven hundred and ninety men. There 

 was little or no resistance, most of the warriors 

 having gone to oppose Clark. Logan took ten scalps 

 and thirty-two prisoners, burned two hundred cabins 

 and quantities of corn, and returned in triumph after 

 a fortnight's absence. One deed of infamy sullied 

 his success. Among his colonels was the scoundrel 

 McGarry, who, in cold blood, murdered the old 

 Shawnee chief, Molunthee, several hours after he 

 had been captured ; the shame of the barbarous deed 

 being aggravated by the fact that the old chief had 

 always been friendly to the Americans. 54 Other 

 murders would probably have followed, had it not 

 been for the prompt and honorable action of Colonels 

 Robert Patterson and Robert Trotter, who ordered 

 their men to shoot down any one who molested an 

 other prisoner. McGarry then threatened them, 

 and they in return demanded that he be court-mar- 

 tialled for murder. 55 Logan, to his discredit, re- 

 Henry. Draper MSS., Proceedings of Committee of Ken 

 tucky Convention, Dec. 19, 1786. 



53 State Department MSS., Virginia State Papers, Logan to 

 Patrick Henry, December 17, 1786. 



M Draper MSS., Caleb Wallace to Wm. Fleming, October 

 23, 1786. State Department MSS., No. 15, Vol. II, Harmar's 

 Letter, November 15, 1786. 



56 Virginia State Papers, Vol. IV, p. 212. 



