the others carried to Kentucky.  The commander of the expedition was so much pleased with the bold conduct of this boy, that upon returning home, he made him a member of his own family, in which he resided some years, until at length, at a council for the exchange of prisoners, held on the bank of the Ohio, opposite to Maysville, between some Shawanoe chiefs and a deputation of citizens from Kentucky, our young hero was permitted to return to his native land.  He was ever afterwards known by the name of Logan.

Of the family of this distinguished individual, we have been enabled to glean but few particulars.  In M’Afee’s History of the Late War, and in Butler’s History of Kentucky, he is represented to have been the son of Tecumseh’s sister:  this is manifestly an error; there was no relationship between them, either by blood or marriage.

Logan was a member of the Machachac tribe of the Shawanoes, and was elevated to the rank of a civil chief on account of his many estimable qualities, both intellectual and moral.  He was a married man, and left behind him a wife and several children—­requesting on his death bed that they might be sent into Kentucky, and placed under the patronage of his friend, colonel Hardin, who had married the daughter of his early patron, captain Logan.  This, however, was not done, owing to objections interposed by the wife.  The personal appearance of Logan was remarkably good, being six feet in height, finely formed and weighing near two hundred pounds.

From the period of his residence in Kentucky, to that of his death, Logan was the unwavering friend of the United States.  He was extensively and favorably known on the frontier of Ohio, and the Indiana territory; and, immediately after the declaration of war against England in 1812, he joined the American service.  He acted as one of the guides of general Hull’s army to Detroit; and, prior to the actual investment of fort Wayne,—­an account of which will be presently given—­he was employed by the Indian agent at Piqua, on an important and delicate mission.  The Indians around fort Wayne were giving indications of a disposition to abandon their neutrality.  This rendered it expedient that the women and children then at that point, should be removed within the inhabited portions of Ohio.  John Johnston, the Indian agent at Piqua, knowing Logan intimately, and having great confidence in his judgment as well as his fidelity, selected him to perform this duty.  He was accordingly furnished with a letter to the commandant of that fort, in which assurances were given, that the persons about to be removed might confidently rely upon the discretion and enterprise of Logan.  He proceeded on his mission, and executed it successfully:  bringing into Piqua—­near one hundred miles distant from fort Wayne—­twenty-five women and children; the former, without an exception, bearing testimony to the uniform delicacy and kindness with which he treated them.  Deeply impressed with the dangerous responsibility of the office he had assumed, he is said not to have slept from the time the party left fort Wayne, until it reached Piqua.