Having been in the expedition of Lord Dunmore against the Indians, and having thus acquired a taste for forest marches and incident, he determined, in 1775, to try his fortunes in Kentucky, which country had then just become a theme of discussion.  He set forth from his mother’s family with three slaves, leaving the rest to her.  In Powell’s valley he met with Boone, Henderson, and other kindred spirits, and pursued his journey towards Kentucky in company with them.  He parted from them, before they reached Boonesborough, and selected a spot for himself, afterwards called Logan’s fort, or station.

In the winter of 1776, he removed his family from Holston, and in March, arrived with it in Kentucky.  It was the same year in which the daughter of Col.  Boone, and those of Col.  Calloway were made captives.  The whole-country being in a state of alarm, he endeavored to assemble some of the settlers that were dispersed in the country called the Crab Orchard, to join him at his cabins, and there form a station of sufficient strength to defend itself against Indian assault.  But finding them timid and unresolved, he was himself obliged to desert his incipient settlement, and move for safety to Harrodsburgh.  Yet, such was his determination not to abandon his selected spot, that he raised a crop of corn there, defenceless and surrounded on all sides by Indian incursion.

In the winter of 1777, and previous to the attack of Harrodsburgh, he found six families ready to share with him the dangers of the selected spot; and he removed his family with them to his cabins, where the settlement immediately united in the important duty of palisading a station.

Before these arrangements were fully completed as the females of the establishment, on the twentieth of May, were milking their cows, sustained by a guard of their husbands and fathers, the whole party was suddenly assailed by a large body of Indians, concealed in a cane-brake.  One man was killed, and two wounded, one mortally, the other severely.  The remainder reached the interior of the palisades in safety.  The number in all was thirty, half of whom were women and children.  A circumstance was now discovered, exceedingly trying to such a benevolent spirit as that of Logan.  While the Indians were still firing, and the inmates part exulting in their safety, and the others mourning over their dead and wounded, it was perceived, that one of the wounded, by the name of Harrison, was still alive, and exposed every moment to be scalped by the Indians.  All this his wife and family could discern from within.  It is not difficult to imagine their agonizing condition, and piercing lamentations for the fate of one so dear to them.  Logan discovered, on this occasion, the same keen sensibility to tenderness, and insensibility to danger, that characterized his friend Boone in similar predicaments.  He endeavored to rally a few of the small number of the male inmates of the place to join him, and rush out, and assist in attempting