called
Bulltown) inhabited by five families, who were in habits of social and
friendly intercourse with the whites on Buchannon and on Hacker's
creek; frequently visiting and hunting with them.[2] There was
likewise residing on Gauley river, the family of a German by the name
of Stroud.[3] In the summer of that year, Mr. Stroud being from home,
his family were all murdered, his house plundered, and his cattle
driven off. The trail made by these leading in the direction of
Bulltown, induced the supposition that the Indians of that village had
been the authors of the outrage, and caused several to resolve on
avenging it upon them.

A party of five men, (two of whom were William White and William
Hacker,[4] who had been concerned in previous murders) expressed a
determination to proceed immediately to Bulltown. The remonstrance of
the settlement generally, could not operate to effect a change in
that determination. They went; and on their return, circumstances
justified the belief that the pre-apprehension of those who knew
the temper and feelings of White and Hacker, had been well founded;
and that there had been some fighting between them and the Indians.
And notwithstanding that they denied ever having seen an Indian in
their absence, yet it was the prevailing opinion, that they had
destroyed all the men, women and children at Bulltown, and threw their
bodies into the river. Indeed, one of the party is said to have,
inadvertently, used expressions, confirmatory of this opinion; and to
have then justified the deed, by saying that the clothes and other
things known to have belonged to Stroud's family, were found in the
possession of the Indians. The village was soon after visited, and
found to be entirely desolated, and nothing being ever after heard
of its former inhabitants, there can remain no doubt but that the
murder of Stroud's family, was requited on them.

Here then was a fit time for the Indians to commence a system of
retaliation and war, if they were disposed to engage in hostilities,
for offences of this kind alone. Yet no such event was the consequence
of the killing of the Bulltown Indians, or of those other murders
which preceded that outrage; and it may be hence rationally concluded,
that the murders on the Ohio river did not lead to such an event. If
however, a doubt should still remain, that doubt is surely removed by
the declaration of Logan himself. It was his family that was killed
opposite Yellow