AN 



APPENDIX 



TO THE 



JVOTES OJV VIRGLVM, 



RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OF LOGAjS's FAMILY. 



A LETTER TO GOVERNOR HENRY, OF MARYLAND. 



Philadelphia, December 31sf, 1797. 

 Dear Sir, 



Mr. Tazewell has communicated to me the en- 

 quiries you liave been so kind as to make, relative to a 

 passage in the Notes on Virginia, which has lately ex- 

 cited some newspaper publications. I feel, with great 

 sensibility, the interest you take in this business, and 

 with pleasure, go into explanations with one whose ob- 

 jects I know to be truth and justice alone. Had Mr. 

 Martin thought proper to suggest to me, that doubts 

 might be entertained of the transaction respecting Lo- 

 gan, as stated in the Notes on Virginia, and to enquire 

 on what grounds tiie statement was founded, I should 

 have felt myself obliged by the enquiry, have informed 

 him candidly of the grounds, and cordially have co- 

 operated in every means of investigating the fact, and 

 correcting whatsoever in it should be found to have 

 been erroneous. But he chose to step at once into the 

 newspapers, and in his publications there and the let- 

 ters he wrote to me, adopteil a style which forbade the 

 respect of an answer. Sensilde, however, that no act 

 of his could absolve me from the justice due to others, 

 as soon as I found that the story of Logan could be 



