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Lord Dunmore and the whole of the officers with him, 

 went in ; that on his arrival at the towns, Logan, the 

 Indian, came to where this deponent was sitting with 

 the Corn-Stalk, and the other chiefs of the Shawnese, 

 and asked him to walk out with him ; that they went 

 into a copse of wood, where they sat down, when Lo- 

 gan, after shedding abundance of tears, delivered to him 

 the speech, nearly as related by Mr. Jefferson in his 

 notes on the State of Virginia ; that he the deponent 

 told him then that it was not Col. Crcsap who had mur- 

 dered his relations, and that although his son captain 

 Michael Cresap was with the party who killed a Shaw- 

 nese chief and other Indians, yet he was not present 

 when his relations were killed at Baker's, near the 

 mouth of Yellow Creek on the Ohio; that this Depo- 

 nent on his return to camp deHvered the speech to Lord 

 Dunmore ; and that the murders perpetrated as above, 

 ■were considered as ultimately the cause of the war of 

 1774, commonly called Crcsap's war. 



JOHN GIBSON. 

 Sworn and suhscrihed the ith Jjpril^ ? 

 1800, at Pittsburg, before me, ^ 



JER. BARKER. 



Extract of a Letter from Col. EBE.YEZER ZANE, 

 to the honourable JOHX BROWX, one of the Sena- 

 tors in Congress from Kentucky ; dated Wheeling, 

 Feb. ^th, 1800. 



I was myself, with many others, in the practice of 

 making improvements on lands upon the Ohio, for 

 the purpose of acquiring rights to the same. Being 

 on the Ohio at the mouth of Sandy Creek, in com- 

 pany with niany others, news circulated that the In- 

 dians had robbed some of the Land jobbers. This 

 news induced the people generally to ascend the 

 Ohio. I was among the number. On our arrival at 

 the Wheeling, being informed that there were two 



