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He still thinks Michael Cresap led the killin' at Baker's an' Cresap was at Red Stone when it happened. Cresap wants to be mighty keerful he don't fall into Logan's hands alive. "Half the folks on the South Fork o' the Clinch can't raise five shoots o' powder. Folks on Rye Cove been movin' over to the Holston, leavin' their cattle behind. Mebbe I'll scout over that way by 'n' by.

The evidence in this matter has long ago been thoroughly sifted; and it is now certain that, so far from being present aiding at the massacre of Logan's family, Colonel Cresap earnestly endeavored to dissuade the party from its purpose. And yet the falsehood is perpetuated even in the common school-books of the country, while its object has been mouldering in his grave for a quarter of a century.

Among the men who were with Cresap at this time was a young Virginian, who afterwards played a brilliant part in the history of the west, who was for ten years the leader of the bold spirits of Kentucky, and who rendered the whole United States signal and effective service by one of his deeds in the Revolutionary war. This was George Rogers Clark, then twenty-one years old.

Thus he severely rules out any testimony against Cresap that is not absolutely unquestioned; but admits without hesitation any and every sort of evidence leaning against poor Logan's character or the authenticity of his speech. It is necessary, therefore, to give a brief summary of a portion of the evidence in its favor, as well as of all the evidence against it.

Cornstalk dashed his hatchet into the council post. "You act like children," he thundered. "I will go and make peace, myself." And leaving his hatchet sticking in the post, go he did. Logan had not been here. He was away, down in Virginia, scouting with his Mingos, and delivering his note to Captain Cresap. On October 21 he arrived with scalps. He refused to meet the governor.

Letter of Devereux Smith June 10, 1774, Gibson's letter, Also Jefferson MSS. Historical Magazine, I., p. 168. Born in Albemarle County, Va., November 19, 1752. The Cresap apologists, including even Brantz Mayer, dwell on Cresap's nobleness in not massacring Logan's family!

I will add that I heard no such expressions of ill-will since the white families were murdered along the Monongahela." "It does make a difference as to whose ox is being gored," grimly commented Colonel Lewis. "Does Pennsylvania still blame Michael Cresap for the death of Logan's people?" asked the governor. "Many of them do, because Connolly reduced him in rank.

They planted the war pole, stripped and painted themselves, and starting the war dance called on Cresap to be their "white leader." The captain, however, declined; but in that wild circling line was one who was a white leader indeed.

One of the first companies that marched to the aid of Washington when he was at Cambridge in 1775 was that of Captain Michael Cresap, which was raised partly in Maryland and partly in the western part of Virginia.

The massacres at Captina and Yellow Creek occurred so near together that they were confounded with each other; and not only the Indians but many whites as well credited Cresap and Greathouse with being jointly responsible for both, and as Cresap was the most prominent, he was the one especially singled out for hatred. Logan instantly fell on the settlement with a small band of Mingo warriors.