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Cresap's name, that the speech, as given in the VIIth volume of our great national historian, Mr. Bancroft, published since the issue of the first edition of this narrative, does not charge Cresap with the Yellow Creek massacre, but omits his name entirely.

APPENDIX No. 3.

The Speech and the Death of Tah-gah-jute or Logan.

While the preceding pages have been passing through the press I had the honor to receive from Mr. Lyman C. Draper, the distinguished and indefatigable secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the following letters concerning the speech and death of Tah-gah-jute or Logan. The letters he quotes from his MS. collections are so interesting that I think historical students will be glad to receive and preserve them; and I have, therefore, added them at the end of this volume as illustrative of the story. I must record my great indebtedness to Mr. Lyman C. Draper for the communication of numerous facts and authorities, while I was occupied in the composition of this essay in 1851, and lately, also, while preparing the present edition. No student of American border life, in early days, has accumulated so large, various, and valuable a stock of original MSS. and printed authorities on the subject, as this kind and enlightened scholar. No one opens his treasures with more generosity to his friends and colaborers. I may be permitted, also, to express the hope in which, I am sure American historians will cordially unite-that Mr. Draper will soon

commence the publication of that series of Pioneer Histories and Biographies, upon which, it is known, he has been employed for so many years.

Logan's Death.

"PLEASANT BRANCH, DANE Co., WIS.,

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My Dear Colonel Mayer:

May 20th, 1867.

"I was yesterday looking over and assorting some of my old manuscripts, preparatory to a pasting process for binding, and I came across a notice of the last days of Logan that I had entirely forgotten, and thinking you might possibly still be able to use it, if you should desire to do so, I will copy and send it.

"In August, 1781, Maj. Charles Cracraft, of Washington Co., Pa., and twelve men, descending the Ohio, as a part of Gen. G. R. Clark's intended expedition against Detroit, were intercepted near the mouth of the Great Miami, by a large body of Indians, and made prisoners. Maj. Cracraft's son, Wm. Cracraft, has furnished me his recollections of his father's relation of his captivity and events connected therewith, and among them the following about Logan, which he communicated to me under date October 1st, 1853, by which you will perceive I did not possess it when you prepared and published your original work on Logan and Cresap in 1851. I will give it in the plain narrative communicated to me, and if you have occasion to use it you must put in shape:

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"I think in my last letter to you mention was made of an acquaintance had by my father, at the time of his captivity with Alexander Macomb, a resident near Detroit, and father of the late Gen. Alex. Macomb, of the U. S. Army' [where (Mr. Cracraft mentions elsewhere), his father was ever kindly treated, and furnished with reading matter, to while away the tedium of his captivity, having given his parole not to run away, nor pass more than three miles beyond the limits of Detroit.] At that time, a certain William McMillen, who had been taken prisoner by the celebrated Indian chief and warrior, Logan, was in the employ of Mr. Macomb, working on his farm, and there my father became acquainted with McMillen, and learned from him much of Logan's life and history. It appears that Logan and McMillen had hunted together before the war; and McMillen was made prisoner by Logan and his party near Clover Lick, on the Greenbrier fork of the Great Kanawha river, Virginia, and taken to Detroit and retained there, and with the privilege of personal freedom by remaining in or near the post of Detroit. It appears that McMillen was a favorite of Logan, for the latter called often to see him, when returning to Detroit with scalps and prisoners.

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"I will give you as near as possible the relation given by my father as to Logan's death. Many years before my father's decease, I had read Jeffer son's account of Logan with much interest, which

accounts for my recollection of the narrative given me by my father. And now to the narrative:

"It appears that Logan in one of his trips to Detroit, and I might say his last one, with scalps and prisoners, after having made disposition of them according to the then British regulations, got into an Indian drunken frolic and became so troublesome that Captain Bawbee, the commissary of the Indian department, kicked him out of the store-house. Logan took it in high dudgeon, and the next day he went to Mr. Macomb's residence to hunt up William McMillen; and, after meeting him and passing the usual salutations, Logan said: 'Bill, I want to have a talk with you, and wish you to meet me at the Spring Wells, below Detroit,' signifying the time by pointing to where the sun would be in the horizon. McMillen acceded to his request and at the appointed time met Logan at the Spring Wells.

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"Logan commenced by giving an account of the abuse he had received from the British at the hands of Bawbee. 'Bill,' said he, addressing McMillen, Why, Bawbee kicked me out of his house, and called me a dog! Bill, I won't fight for the British any more; they have treated me very bad. Now, Bill, take this tomahawk, and tell how many prisoners, and how many scalps, I have taken from the Big Knives [the Virginians] for the British.' Logan had made a notch-record on one side of his hatchet handle for each prisoner taken, and on the other

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