The deposition of Col. William M'Kee of Lincoln County, 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 1774, he commanded as a captain in the Bottetourt Regiment under Col. Andrew Lewis, afterwards Gen. Lewis: and fought in the battle at the mouth of the Kanhawa, on the 10th of October in that year. That after the battle, Col. Lewis marched the militia across the Ohio and proceeded towards the Shawnee Towns on Scioto; 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 the battle was fought, 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 company with Lord Dunmore and several of his officers, and also conversed with several who had been with Lord Dunmore at the Treaty; said William, on that evening, heard repeated conversations concerning an extraordinary speech made at the Treaty, 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 attention of said William, and the most striking members of it were impressed on his memory. And he declares that when Thomas Jefferson's notes on Virginia were published, and he came to peruse the same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there set forth, as being substantially the same, and accordant with the Speech he heard rehearsed in the camp as aforesaid. Signed, WILLIAM M’KEE, Danville, December 18th, 1799. We certify that Col. William M'Kee this day signed the original certificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our presence. JAMEL SPEED, Junr. The Certificate of the Honourable STEVENS THOMPSON MASON, one of the Senators in Congress from the State of Virginia. "LOGAN'S Speech, delivered at the Treaty, after the Battle, in which Col. LEWIS was killed in 1774." [Here follows a copy of the speech agreeing verbatim with that printed in Dixon and Hunter's Virginia Gazette of February 4, 1775, under the Williamsburg head. At the foot is this certificate.] "The foregoing is a copy taken by me, when a boy, at school, in the year 1775, or at furthest in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket book, containing papers and manuscripts of that period. "STEPHENS THOMPSON MASON. "January 20th, 1798." A copy of LOGAN'S Speech given by the late General MERCER, who fell in the Battle of Trenton, January 1776, to LEWIS WILLIS, Esq., of Fredericksburg, in Virginia, upwards of 20 years ago, (from the date of February 1798,) communicated through MANN PAGĚ, Esq. "The SPEECH of LOGAN, a Shawanese chief, to Lord Dunmore." [Here follows a copy of the speech, agreeing verbatim with that in the Notes on Virginia.] A copy of LOGAN'S SPEECH from the Notes on Virginia having been sent to captain ANDREW RODGERS of Kentucky, he subjoined the following certificate:- "In the year 1774, I was out with the Virginia Volunteers, and was in the battle at the mouth of Canhawee, and afterwards proceeded over the Ohio to the Indian towns. I did not hear Logan make the above speech; but, from the unanimous accounts of those in camp, I have reason to think that said speech was delivered to Dunmore. I remember to have heard the very things contained in the above speech, related by some of our people in camp at that time. "ANDREW RODGERS." The declaration of Mr. JOHN HECKEWELDER, for several years a Missionary from the Society of Moravians, among the western Indians. 66 In the spring of the year 1774, at a time when the interior part of the Indian country all seemed peace and tranquil, the Villagers on the Muskingum were suddenly alarmed by two Runners (Indians,) who reported that the Big Knife, (Virginians) had attacked the Mingo settlement, on the Ohio, and butchered even the women with their children in their arms, and that Logan's family were among the slain." A day or two after this, several Mingoes made their appearance; among whom were one or two wounded, who had in this manner effected their escape. Exasperated to a high degree, after relating the particulars of this transaction, (which for humanity's sake I forbear to mention,) after resting some time on the treachery of the Big Knives, of their barbarity to those who are their friends, they gave a figurative description of the perpetrators; named Cresap as having been at the head of this murderous act. They made mention of nine being killed, and two wounded; and were prone to take revenge on any person of white colour; for which reason the missionaries had to shut themselves up during their stay. From this time terror daily increased. The exasperated friends and relations of these murdered women and children, with the nations to whom they belonged, passed and repassed through the villages of the quiet Delaware towns, in search of white people, making use of the most abusive language to these (the Delawares,) since they would not join in taking revenge. Traders had either to hide themselves, or try to get out of the country the best way they could. And even, at this time, they yet found such true friends among the Indians, who, at the risk of their own lives, conducted them, with the best part of their property, to Pittsburg; although (shameful to relate!) these benefactors were, on their return from this mission, waylaid, and fired upon by whites, while crossing Big Beaver in a canoe, and had one man, a Shawnese, named Silverheels, (a man of note in his nation) wounded in his body. This exasperated the Shawnese so much, that they, or at least a great part of them, immediately took an active part in the cause; and the Mingoes, (nearest connected with the former, became unbounded in their rage. A Mr. Jones, son to a respectable family of this neighbourhood (Bethlehem,) who was then on his passage up Muskingum, with two other men, was fortunately ́espied by a friendly Indian woman, at the falls of Muskingum who through motives of humanity alone, informed Jones of the nature of the times, and that he was running right in the hands of the enraged; and put him on the way, where he might perhaps escape the vengeance of the strolling parties. One of Jones's men, fatigued by travelling in the woods, declared he would rather die than remain longer in this situation; and hitting accidentally on a path, he determined to follow the same. A few hundred yards decided his fate. He was met by a party of about fifteen Mingoes, (and as it happened, almost within sight of White Eyes Town,) murdered and cut to pieces; and his limbs and flesh stuck up on the bushes. White Eyes, on hearing the Scalp Halloo, ran immediately out with his men, to see what the matter was; and finding the mangled body in this condition, gathered the whole and buried it. But next day, when some of the above party found ; on their return the body interred, they instantly tore up the ground, and endeavoured to destroy, or scatter about, the parts at a greater distance. White Eyes, with the Delawares, watching their motions, gathered and interred the same a second time. The war party finding this out, ran furiously into the Delaware Village, exclaiming against the conduct of these people, setting forth the cruelty of Cresap towards women and children, and declaring at the same time, that they would, in consequence of this cruelty, serve every white man they should meet with in the same manner. Times grew worse and worse, war parties went out and took scalps and prisoners, and the latter, in hopes it might be of service in saving their lives, exclaimed against the barbarous act which gave rise to these troubles and against the perpetrators. The name of Greathouse was mentioned as having been accomplice to Cresap. So detestable became the latter name among the Indians, that I have frequently heard them apply it to the worst of things; also in quieting or stilling their children, I have heard them say, Hush! Cresap will fetch you; whereas otherwise, they name the owl. The warriors having afterwards bent their course more toward the Ohio, and down the same, peace seemed with us already on the return; and this became the case soon after the decided battle fought on the Kanhaway. Traders, returning now into the Indian country again, related the story of the above mentioned massacre, after the same manner, and with the same words, we have heard it related hitherto. So the report remained, and was believed, by all who resided in the Indian country. So it was represented numbers of times, in the peaceable Delaware Towns, by the enemy. So the Christian Indians were continually told they would one day be served. With this impression, a petty Chief hurried all the way from Wabash in 1779 to take his relations (who were living with the peaceable Delawares near Coshachking), out of the reach of the Big Knives, in whose friendship he never more would place any confidence. And when this man found that his numerous relations |