was committed to the preſent day, firmly believed the common report (which he had never heard contradicted, viz. that one Creſap was the author of the maſſacre; or that it was committed by his orders: and that he had known Logan as a boy, frequently ſeen him from that time and doubted not in the leaſt, that Logan had ſent ſuch a ſpeech to lord Dunmore on this occaſion, as he underſtood from me had been publiſhed; that expreſſions of that kind from Indians were familiar to him; that Logan in particular, was a man of quick comprehenſion, good judgment and talents. Mr. Zeiſberger has been a miſſionary upwards of fifty years; his age is about eighty; ſpeaks both the language of the Oaondagoes and the Delawares; reſides at preſent on the Muſkinghum., with his Indian congregation; and is beloved and reſpected by all who are acquainted with him.
JOHN HECKEWELDER.
From this teſtimony the following hiſtorical ſtatement reſults:
In April or May 1774, a number of people being engaged in looking out for ſettlements on the Ohio, information was ſpread among them, that the Indians had robbed ſome of the land-jobbers, as thoſe adventures were called. Alarmed for their ſafety, they collected together at Wheeling creek. [1]Hearing that there were two Indians and ſome traders a little above Wheeling, captain Michael Creſap, one of the party, propoſed to waylay and kill them. The propoſition, though oppoſed, was
- ↑ 1ſt murder of the two Indians by Creſap.
