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liaving heard of Cresap's murder of their relations at 

 Grave creek, were angry, and she pressed him in a 

 friendly manner, to go home; whereupon, after inviting 

 them to come over and drink, he returned to Baker's 

 which was a tavern, and desired that when any of them; 

 should come to his house he would give them as much 

 rum as they would drink. When his plot was ripe and 

 a sufficient numher of them were collected at Baker's 

 and intoxicated, he and Jiis party fell on them and mas- 

 sacreed the whole, except a little girl, whom they pre- 

 served as a prisoner. Among these was the very wo- 

 man who liad saved his life, by pressing him to retire 

 from the drunken wrath of her friends, when he was 

 sj)ying their camp at Yellow-creek. — Either she herself, 

 or some other of the nuu'dered women, was the sister 

 of Logan, very big with child, and inhumanly and in- 

 decently butchered ; and there were others of his rela- 

 tions who fell here. 



The ])arty on the other side of the river,* alarmed for 

 their friends at Baker's, on liearing the report of the 

 guns, manned two canoes and sent them over. They 

 were received, as they apj)roached the shore, by a well 

 directed fire from Great-house's party, which killed 

 some, v/ounded others, and obliged the rest to put back. 

 Baker tells us there were twelve killed, and six or eight 

 wounded. 



This commenced the war, of which Losran's war- 

 club and note left in the liouse of a murdered family, 

 was the notification. In the course of it, during the 

 ensuing summer, great numbers of innocent men, wo- 

 men and children, fell victims to the tomahawk and 

 scalping knife of the Indians, till it was arrested in the 

 autumn following by the battle at Point Pleasant and 

 the ])acification with Lord Dunmore, at which the 

 speech of Logan was delivered. 



Of the genuineness of that speech nothing need be 

 said. — It was known to the camp where it was deliver- 

 ed ; it was given out by Lord Dunmore and his officers; 



* Fourth murder by Great-house. 

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