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The declaration of John Sappington, received after the 

 publication of the preceding Jippendix. 



I, JOHN SAPPINGTON, declare myself to be inti- 

 mately acquainted with all the circumstances respect- 

 ing the destruction of Logan's family, and do give 

 in the following narrative, a true statement of that 

 affair. 



Logan's family (if it was his family) was not killed by 

 Cresap, nor with his knowledge, nor by his consent,but 

 by the Great-houses and their associates. They were 

 killed 30 miles above Wheeling, near the mouth of Yel- 

 low creek. Logan's camp was on one side of the river 

 Ohio, and the house, where the murder was committed, 

 opposite to it on the other side. — They had encamped 

 there only four or five days, and during that time had 

 lived peaceably and neighbourly with the whites on the 

 opposite side, until the very day the affair hapj)ened. A 

 little before the period alluded to, letters had been re- 

 ceived by the inhabitants from a man of great influence 

 in that country, and who was then I believe at Cap- 

 teener, informing them that war was at hand, and de- 

 siring them to be on their guard. In consequence of 

 those letters and other rumours of the same import, al- 

 most all the inhabitants fled for safety into the settle- 

 ments. It was at the house of one Baker the murder 

 was committed. Baker was a man who sold rum, and 

 the Indians had made frequent visits at his house, in- 

 duced, probably, by their fondness for that liquor. He 

 had been particularly desired by Cresap to remove and 

 take away his rum, and he was actually preparing to 

 move at the time of the murder. The evening before a 



