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The Certifcate of CHARLES POLKE, of Shelby 

 County, in Kentucky, communicated by the hon. 

 Judge Junes, of Kentucky, who in the letter enclosing 

 it, together loith JVeivlamVs certifcate, and his own 

 declaration of the information given him by Baker, 

 says, " I am well acquainted ivith Jacob JVeivland, he 

 is a man of integrity. Charles Polke and Joshua 

 Baker both support respectable characters.''^ 



About the latter end of April or beginning of May 

 1774, I lived on the waters of Cross creek, about 16 

 miles from Joshua Baker, who lived on the Ohio, op- 

 posite the mouth of Yellow creek. A number of 

 persons collected at my house, and proceeded to the 

 said Baker's and murdered several Indians, among 

 whom was a woman said to be the sister of the Indi- 

 an chief, Logan. The principal leader of the party 

 was Daniel Great-house. To the best of my recol- 

 lection the cause which gave rise to the murders was, 

 a general idea that the Indians were meditating an 

 attack on the frontiers. Capt. JMichael C?esap was 

 not of the party ; but I recollect that some time be- 

 fore the perpetration of the above fact it was current- 

 ly reported that capt. Cresap had murdered some In- 

 dians on the Ohio, one or two, some distance below 

 "Wheeling. 



Certified by me, an inhabitant of Shelby county 

 and state of Kentucky, this 15th day of November, 

 1799. 



CHARLES POLKE. 



The Declaration of the hon. Judge IJVJVES, of Frank- 

 fort, in Kentucky. 



On the 14th of November, 1799,1 accidentally met 



upon the road Joshua Baker, the person referred to 



3 in the certificate signed by Polke, who informed me 



that the murder of the Indians in 1774, opposite the 



