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the party themselves, I then formed the opinion, and 

 have not had any reason to change the opinion since, 

 that the kilhng, on the part of the whites, was what 3 

 I deem the grossest murder. I further certify that 

 some of the party, who afterwards killed some wo- 

 men and other Indians at Baker's Bottom, also lay at 

 my cabin, on their march to the interior part of the 

 county ; they had with them a little girl, whose life 

 had been spared by the interference of some more 

 humane than the rest. If necessary I will make affi- 

 davit to the above to be true. Certified at Washing- 

 ton, this 18th day of April, Anno Domini, 1798. 



WILLIAM HUSTON. 



The Certificate of JACOB JVEJVLAJVD, of SUlhij 

 County, Kentucky, communicated by the Hon. Judge 

 Innes, of Kentucky. 



In the year 1774, I lived on the waters of Short 

 Creek, a branch of the Ohio, 12 miles above Wheel- 

 ing. Sometime in June or in July of that year, capt. 

 Michael Cresap raised a party of men, and came out 

 under col M' Daniel, of Hampshire County, Virginia, 

 who commanded a detachment against the Wappo- 

 tommaka towns on the Muskinghum. I niet with 

 capt. Cresap, at Redstone fort, and entered his com- 

 pany. Being very well acquainted with him, we 

 conversed freely ; and he, among other conversations, 

 informed me several times of falling in with some In- 

 dians on the Ohio some distance below the mouth of 2 

 Yellow Creek, and killed two or three of them ; and 

 that this murder was before that of the Indians by 

 Great-house and others, at Yellow Creek. I do not 

 recollect the reason which capt. Cresap assigned for 3 

 committing the act, but never understood that the 

 Indians gave any offence. Certified under my hand 

 this 15th day of November, 1799, being an inhabitant 

 of Shelby county, and state of Kentucky. 



JACOB NEWLAND. 



