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mouth of Yellow creek, was perpetrated at his house 

 by 32 men, led on by Daniel Great-house ; 4liat 12 

 were killed and G or 8 wounded ; among the slain 

 was a sister and other relations of the Indian chief, 

 Logan. Baker says, Captain Michael Cresap was 

 not of the j)arty ; that some days preceding the mur- 

 <^er at his house two Indians left him and were on 

 their way home; that they fell in with capt. Cresap 1 

 and a party of land improvers on the Oliio, and were 

 murdered, if not by Cresap himself, with his appro- 

 l)ation ; he being the leader of the party, and that he 

 had this information from Cresap. 



HARRY INNCS. 



The Declaration of WILLIAM ROBLYSO.Yl 



William Robinson, of Clarksburg, in the county of 

 Harrison, and state of Virginia, subscriber to these 

 presents, declares that he was, in the year 1774, a 

 resident on the west fork of Mononsrahela river, in 

 the county then called West Augusta, and being in his 

 field on the 12th of July, with two other men, they 

 were surprised by a })arty of eight Indians, who shot 

 down one of the others and made himself and the re- 

 maining one prisoners ; this subscriber's wife and 

 four children having ])een previou:<ly conveyed by 

 him for safety to a fort about 24 miles off; that the 

 principal Indian of the party which took them was 

 captain Logan; that Logan spoke English well, and 

 very soon manifested ?i friendly disposition to this 

 subscriber, and told him to be of good heart, that he 

 would not be killed, but must go with him to liis 

 town, where he would probably be adopted in some 

 of their families ; but above all things that he must 

 not attempt to run away : that in the course of the 

 journey to the Indian town he generally endeavoured 

 to keep close to Logan, who had a great deal of con- 

 versation with hitn, always encouraging him to be 

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