INDEX. ARMSTRONG, John, 43, note. Arnold, Woodworth, 43, note. Authorities, as to the campaigns and battles of the Indian War of BACKWOODSMEN, trade with the East, through the Cumberland Baker's cabin, opposite mouth of Yellow creek, scene of the Bawbee, Capt., British Commissary Indian Department, kicks Benton, Col. T. H., letter to B. Mayer concerning Logan, etc., 111, Biddle, J. W., letter to, from Rev. W. Robinson, Jr., concerning the Logan speech, etc., 191. Bird, Capt., Logan a marauder with him, 137. Bledsoe, Capt. Anthony, letter to Col. Preston, 111, note. Bliss, L. C., Jr., first publishes a copy of Gen. G. R. Clark's letter Boone's party, rear of, some of his sons slain, 73, note. Bouquet's treaty, unfulfilled, 67. Bowman, James L., MS. of, 65, note. Braddock's defeat in 1755, and condition of the Indian wilderness Braddock's road, the same that was first marked through the Brainard, David, visits Shamokin 1745, his account of its vicious condition, 45. Brown, Coleman, attacked by Logan and his war party, 107. Brown, Dr. Samuel, letter to Gen. G. R. Clark concerning the mitting Gen. Clark's letter, 156. Brown, Thomas and Basil, brothers, possessors of the site of Brown, William, adventure with Logan, 50. CALDWELL, John, affidavit as to the Logan and Cresap affair, and as to Mr. Jefferson, 161. California, a field of missionary labor only to 1846, 3. Callender, 72. Camerhoff, Bishop, visits Shamokin 1748, 47. Camp Charlotte, 119. Campbell, Major Arthur, letter from, 111, note. Campbell, Thomas, poet, paraphrases Logan's speech in Gertrude of Wyoming, 142; corrects the stricture as to Brant in a note, 142, note. Chartres, Fort, 68. Christian, Col. William, letter of, to Col. W. Preston, 120. Clark, George Rogers, on the Ohio, with settlers, spring of 1774, 87; enrolls his band of men for protection, party fired on, 88; his letter concerning the Cresap and Logan controversy, addressed to Dr. S. Brown for Mr. Jefferson, and to correct Jefferson, 149. Committee of safety of Maryland arrest Connolly, 78; appoints Cresap captain, 126; its original papers in archives of Maryland Historical Society, 80, note. Connolly, Dr. John, at Pittsburgh, 76; his arrest and examination at Conoys, their hunting ground assigned, 42. Cracrafts, account of Logan's death, appendix No. 3, 182, et seq. Craddock, Rev. Mr., his school in Baltimore county, Maryland, 37; Cresap educated there, 37. Craig, Neville B., concerning Logan's speech, 167. Crawford, Valentine, Washington's land agent in the west, 1774, 87; letter to Washington, fixes date of Yellow creek massacre, 98, note. Cresap, Capt. Michael, date of birth, 37; taught at Rev. Mr. Craddock's school, Baltimore county, 37; runs away from school, whipped and sent back, 38; marries Miss Whitehead, and settled by his father as a trader, 38; unlucky, 39; fight with London agent in Fredericktown, 39; commences settling lands on the Ohio, 40; "Cresap's war," 65; on the Ohio in the spring of 1774, 87; sent for by G. R. Clark's party, 89; peaceful councils, 90; he receives Connolly's message, 21 April, 1774; counsels not to attack Logan's camp, 96; draws off his men, 96; Logan's letter to Cresap left at Roberts's after the murder, tied to a war club, 112; Cresap goes to Maryland, stopped at Catfish's camp (Washington, Pennsylvania), by a letter from Connolly, 113; Cresap commissioned by Lord Dunmore as captain in militia, Hampshire county, Virginia, 10 June, 1774, 114; Cresap at treaty of Camp Charlotte, what he said when he heard himself charged by Logan with the Yellow creek massacre, 125; Cresap returns to Maryland in autumn of 1774; in 1775 again went west and became sick, 125; returns towards Maryland, and is met by notification of appointment in the Rifle Corps, 126; Cresap's Rifle Company described in letter from Philadelphia, August 1775, 128; the skill of his men as marksmen; their hardihood, 129, 130; Cresap at Boston, joins American army 1775, 131; becomes ill, endeavors to reach home, dies in New York aged thirty-three, 131; buried in Trinity church-yard, N. Y., 1775, account of his funeral, 132, note; his grave and grave-stone discovered by B. Mayer, in 1860, 133, note; fac simile of grave-stone and inscription, 144. Cresap, Col. Thomas, father of Michael, emigrates from Yorkshire, England, 21; marries and settles at Havre de Grace, Maryland, 21; his adventures, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; settles at Old Town, Alleghany county, Maryland, and becomes large landed proprietor, 27; renews his intimacy with Washington, 27; employed by the Ohio Company, 1748; marks the road for the first time across the Alleghanies, 28; at age of ninety digested a plan for exploration to the Pacific, 29; harrassed by the savages, 31; characteristic letter from him describing an Cresap, Col. Thomas- Continued. Indian raid, 32, note; his map of the fountain head of the Potomac, 33; his Indian name, Big Spoon, 35; marries second time at eighty, visits Nova Scotia at one hundred, dies at one hundred and six, 36. DAH-GAN-ON-DO, or Captain Decker, his narrative of Logan's death as he received it from Tod-kah-dohs, 140. Development, the progress of, the Discoverer, the Conqueror, Pioneer, Hunter, Farmer, Merchant, 9. De Yong, the tailor, Logan's adventure with him, 54. Doddridge, Rev. Dr., 20. Draper, Lyman C., records Michael Myers's narrative, 100, note; his eminence as a historical student and scholar, 181; his pioneer histories and biographies, 182; letter from, to B. Mayer concerning the speech and death of Logan, 182; letter from, to Judge Gibson concerning the Logan and Cresap story, 188. Dunlop, James, letter to B. Mayer, concerning Logan's speech, 167. Dunmore's, Lord, speech to the Delawares and chiefs of the Six Nations, reference to, 73, notes; issues his proclamation, 25 April, 1744; soreness of feeling between the Virginia planters and the Pennsylvania traders, 74, 75; letter to Gen. Haldimand, 77, note; Lord Dunmore's “loving message" to the "Cornstalk" Indian chief, 80, note; his proposals to Gen. Gage to raise an army to obstruct communication between the northern and southern governments, 80, note; letter from Lord Dunmore to Lord Dartmouth about raising the Indians, 79. Du Quesne, Fort, or Fort Pitt, or Pittsburgh, 13. Dutch family, massacred on the Kanawha, 1773, 73. ELLIS, allowed to pass by the Indians because he was a Pennsylvanian, 72. Emigration, tendencies of, 5. Evans, Lewis, the geographer, travels with Bartram and Kalm, 1743, 45, note. FORT PITT, or Pittsburgh, 13. French forts, 30. GIBSON, JOHN, alleged father of Indian child rescued at Yellow creek massacre, 121; despatched to seek Logan at treaty of Camp Charlotte, 121; interview with Logan, 122; statement as to Logan's speech, 166, 169. Gibson, the late Hon. Judge John Bannister, chief justice of Pennsylvania, brother of General John Gibson, his account of the Logan and Cresap affair in a letter to the late Edward D. Ingraham, 186; letter from him to Lyman C. Draper, same subject, 189. Gilmor papers, the, in collection of Maryland Historical Society, 34, note. Greathouse, Daniel, and his party, charged with the Yellow creek massacre, 98, note. HECKWELDER, Rev. J., his opinion of Shikellamy, etc., 47; he meets Logan, 1772, near the Beaver, 54. Hellen, Thomas, attacked by Logan and his war party, 107. Hog, Mr., and three white men killed on the Kanawha, 1774, 73. House, first, said to have been built west of the mountains, 64. House warmings of pioneers, 19. Hunter-pioneers, description of, 16; their habits and manners, 17, 18. INDIAN history, its character, 41. Indian hostilities commenced, 1774, 93. Indian morality, proper standard to judge them historically, 69. Innes, Judge, at Col. Wm. Preston's in fall of 1774, 110. JACOB'S, J. J., Life of Cresap, noticed, 35, note; Jacob, in Michael Cresap's store, 36; in Revolutionary war 36; marries Michael Cresap's widow, 36, note; letter from his son to B. Mayer, relative to his father's military rank in revolutionary war, 37; accounts of notification to Cresap of his military appointment in 1775, 126. |