1 10 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



this war, in which the Indians engaged, on the side of the 

 French, against us, of which Logan speaks, in his address to 

 Lord Dunmore. It was, indeed, a long and bloody war, in 

 which, Louis XIV., XV. lost Canada, and all the country wa- 

 tered by the Ohio river. 



From 1764 up to 1774, there was no Indian war, on this 

 frontier, between the whites and the Indians; and had it not 

 been for some badly disposed, and bloody minded men, perhaps, 

 those scenes of cruelty and bloodshed, which we are compell- 

 ed to notice, though slightly, might possibly have been avoided 

 altogether. But so it was, and our regrets, cannot alter the 

 facts, which now form a portion of history, and having been 

 acted on our territory, belong to Ohio's history. 



LORD DUNMORE'S WAR OF 1774. 



From the peace made with the Indians by Sir William John- 

 ston, at the German Flatts, on the Mohawk river, in the 1764, 

 until the spring of 1774, there was no Indian War on the Ohio 

 river. On the 27th of April, 1774, Captain Cresap, at the 

 head of a party of men, at Wheeling in Virginia, heard of two 

 Indians and some of their families, being up the river hunting, 

 not many miles off; Cresap and his party followed them, and 

 killed them, without provocation, in cold blood and in pro- 

 found peace! After committing these murders, on their return 

 to Wheeling that night, in their bloody conoes, they heard of 

 an Indian encampment down the river, at the mouth of Cap- 

 tina creek, and they immediately went, attacked and murder- 

 ed all these Indians. After these unprovoked and cruel mur- 

 ders, a party under Daniel Greathouse, forty seven in num- 

 ber, we believe, ascended the river above Wheeling, about forty 

 miles, to Baker's station, which was opposite the mouth of Great 

 Yellow creek. There keeping his men out of the sight of the 

 Indians, Captain Greathouse, went over the river, to reconoitre 

 the ground, and to ascertain how many Indians were there. 

 He fell in with an Indian woman, who advised him, not to stay 

 among them, as the Indians were drinking and angry. On re- 

 ceiving this friendly advise, he returned over to Baker's block 



