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The deposition of Col. William JWKee of Lincoln Coun- 

 ty, Kentucky, communicated by the Hon. John Brown, 

 one of the Senators in Congress from Kentucky. 



Colonel William M'Kee of Lincoln county declareth, 

 that in autumn J 774, he commanded as a captain in the 

 Bottetourt Regiment under Col. Andrew Lewis, after- 

 wards Gen. Lewis : and fought in the battle at the 

 mouth of the Kanhawa, on the lOtli of October in that 

 year. That after the battle. Col. Lewis marched the 

 militia across the Ohio and proceeded towards the 

 Shawnee Towns on vScioto ; but before they reached 

 the Towns, Lord Dunmore "who was commander in 

 chief of the army, and had, with a large party thereof 

 been up the Ohio about Hockhockin, when tlie battle 

 was fougijt, overtook the militia, and informed them of 

 his having since the battle concluded a Treaty with the 

 Indians ; upon which the whole army returned. 



And the said William declareth that, on the evening 

 of that day on which the junction of the troops took 

 place, he was in comjjany with Lord Dunmore and se- 

 veral of his officer?, and also conversed with several who 

 had been with Lord Dunmore at the Treaty ; said Wil- 

 liam, on that evening, heard repeated conversations 

 concerning an extraordinary speech made at the Trea- 

 ty, or sent there by a chieftain of the Indians named 

 Logan, and heard several attempts at a rehearsal of it. 

 The speech as rehearsed excited the particular atten- 

 tion of said William, and the most striking members of 

 it were impressed on his memory. 



And lie declares that when Thomas Jefferson's notes 

 on Virginia were published, and he came to j)eruse the 

 same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there ^ 

 sot forth, as being substantially the same, and accord- '^^^ 

 ant with the Speech he heard rehearsed in the camj>^- 

 as aforesaid. • i.'^y 



Signed, WILLIAM WK^^^ 



Danville, December 1 m; \f^9. 

 We certifv that Col. William M'Kee thi3HVay~%igned 



