of Logan’s family is alleged to have been killed, was also headed by Cresap; and, in this he is sustained by Doddridge, Heckewelder and others; but it is denied by Jacob.  “Pursuing these examples,” says Mr. Jefferson, “Daniel Greathouse and one Tomlinson, who lived on the opposite side of the river from the Indians, and were in habits of friendship with them, collected at the house of Polk, on Cross creek, about sixteen miles from Baker’s bottom, a party of thirty-two men.  Their object was to attack a hunting party of Indians, consisting of men, women and children, at the mouth of Yellow creek, some distance above Wheeling.  They proceeded, and when arrived near Baker’s bottom they concealed themselves, and Greathouse crossed the river to the Indian camp.  Being among them as a friend, he counted them and found them too strong for an open attack with his force.  While here, he was cautioned by one of the women not to stay, for that the Indian men were drinking; and having heard of Cresap’s murder of their relatives at Grave creek, were angry; and she pressed him in a friendly manner to go home; whereupon, after inviting them to come over and drink, he returned to Baker’s, which was a tavern, and desired that when any of them should come to his house, he would give them as much rum as they could drink.  When this plot was ripe, and a sufficient number of them had collected at Baker’s and become intoxicated, he and his party fell on them and massacred the whole except a little girl, whom they preserved as a prisoner.  Among them was the very woman who had saved his life by pressing him to retire from the drunken wrath of her friends, when he was playing the spy in their camp at Yellow creek.  Either she herself or some other one of the murdered women was the sister of Logan; there were others of his relations who fell at the same time.  The party on the opposite side of the river, upon hearing the report of the guns, became alarmed for their friends at Baker’s house, immediately manned two canoes and sent them over.  They were met by a fire from Greathouse’s party, as they approached the shore, which killed some, wounded others, and obliged the remainder to return.  Baker subsequently stated, that six or eight were wounded and twelve killed.”

The settlers along the frontier, satisfied that the Indians would retaliate upon them, for these unprovoked aggressions, either returned to the interior of the country, or gathered in forts, and made preparation for resistance.  The assembly of the colony of Virginia being then in session, an express was sent to the seat of government, announcing the commencement of hostilities with the Indians, and asking assistance.  In the month of May, the excitement among the Indians was still further increased by the murder of the Delaware sachem, “Bald Eagle,” and the wounding of “Silver Heels,” a popular chief of the Shawanoe tribe.  Bald Eagle was an aged, harmless man, who was in the habit of visiting the whites on