Murder of Logan's Family. •!! 



as " Catfish's Camp," so named after an old Indian who resided there 

 at the time the whites first settled on the Monongahela. This place 

 is about thirty miles in a south westerly direction ft-om the mouth of 

 Yellow Creek, or "Baker's Bottom," opposite to the creek where the 

 tragedy was acted. Henry Jolly was then sixteen years old. A 

 large portion of the time during the war of the revolution, he was in 

 the U. S. service, as a rifleman and ranger. Some time after the 

 peace he removed to Ohio, and was for a number of years an Asso- 

 ciate Judge on the bench of Washington County. He never recei- 

 ved any advantages from schools, and yet was a man of extensive 

 reading and general knowledge of mankind. I shall have occasion 

 to refer to him again. The statement cannot be better given than 

 in his own words. 



Murder of Logan'' s family . — " I was about sixteen years of age, but 

 I very well recollect what I then saw, and the information that I have 

 since obtained, was derived from (I believe) good authority. In the 

 spring of the year 1774, a party of Indians encamped on the north 

 west of the Ohio, near the mouth of the Yellow Creek. A party 

 of whites, called ' Greathouse's party,' lay on the opposite side of 

 the river. The Indians came over to the white party, consisting, I 

 think, of five men and one woman, with an infant. The whites gave 

 them rum, which three of them drank, and in a short time they be- 

 came very drunk. The other two men and the woman refused to 

 drink. The sober Indians were challenged to shoot at a mark, to 

 which they agreed ; and as soon as they had emptied their guns 

 the whites shot them down. The woman attempted to escape by 

 flight, but was also shot down ; she lived long enough, however, to 

 beg mercy for her babe, telling them that it was a kin to themselves. 

 The whites had a man in the cabin, prepared with a tomahawk for 

 the purpose of killing the three drunken Indians, which was imme- 

 diately done. The party of men then moved off for the interior set- 

 tlements, and came to ' Catfish Camp' on the evening of the next 

 day, where they tarried until the day following. I very well recol- 

 lect my mother feeding and dressing the babe ; chirruping to the 

 little innocent, and its smiling. However, they took it away, and 

 talked of sending it to its supposed father, Col. George Gibson, of 

 Carlisle, Pa., ' who was then, and had been for many years, a trader 

 amongst the Indians.' The remainder of the party at the mouth of 

 Yellow Creek, finding that their friends on the opposite side of the 

 river were massacred, attempted to escape by descending the Ohio ; 



