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cheerful and without fear ; for that he would not be 

 killed, but should become one of them ; and constant- 

 ly impressing on him not to attempt to run away ; 

 that in these conversations he always charged capt. 

 Michael Cresap with the murder of his family : that 

 on his arrival in the town, which was on the 18th of 

 July, he was tied to a stake, and a great debate arose 

 whether he should not be burnt ; Logan insisted on 

 having him adopted, while others contended to burn 

 him : that at length Logan prevailed, tied a belt of 

 wampum round him as the mark of adoption, loosed 

 him from the post and carried him to the cabin of an 

 old squaw, where Logan pointed out a person who he 

 said was this subscriber's cousin ; and lie afterwards 

 understood that the old woman was his aunt, and 

 two others his brothers, and that he now stood in the 

 place of a warrior of the family who had been killed 

 at Yellow creek ; that about three days after this 

 Logan brought him a piece of paper, and told him he 

 must write a letter for him, which he meant to carry 

 and leave in some house where he should kill some- 

 body ; that he made ink with gunpowder, and the 

 subscriber proceeded to write the letter by his direc- 

 tion, addressing captain Michael Cresap in it, and 

 that the purport of it was, to ask " why he had killed 

 his people ? That some time before they had killed 

 his people at some place (the name of which the sub- 

 scriber forgets) w^hich he had forgiven ; but since 

 that he had killed his people again at Yellow creek, 

 and taken his cousin, a little girl, prisoner; that 

 therefore he must war against the whites : but that 

 he would exchange the subscriber for his cousin." 

 And signed it with Logan's name, which letter Lo- 

 gan took and set out again to war; and the contents 

 of this letter, as recited by the subscriber, calling to 

 mind, that stated by Judge Innes to have boen left, 

 tied U) a war club, in a house, where a family was 

 murdered, and tiiat being read to the subscriber, he 

 recognises it, and declares he verily believes it to 

 have been the identical letter which he wrote, and 



