Indians.
Daniel Greathouse lived in the vicinity--a cruel, bloodthirsty
fellow, who served Connolly as a local agent in fomenting
hatred of Indians. It will be remembered (p. 131, _note_) that
Cresap's party were intending to strike the camp of Logan, but
that they abandoned the project. In the meantime, probably
without knowledge of Cresap's intent, Greathouse had collected
a party of 32 borderers to accomplish the same end. Logan's
camp seemed too strong for them to attack openly; so they
secreted themselves in Baker's house, and when Logan's family,
men and women, came over to get their daily grog, and were
quite drunk, set upon them and slew and tomahawked nine or ten.
The chief, standing on the Ohio bank, heard the uproar and
witnessed the massacre; he naturally supposed that the
murderers were led by Cresap. From a friend of the whites,
Logan became their implacable enemy, and during the ensuing war
his forays were the bloodiest on the border. We shall hear of
him and his famous speech, later on.

[12] It was then that Westfall's and Casinoe's forts were
erected in Tygart's valley,--Pricket's, on Pricket's
creek,--Jackson's on Ten Mile, and Shepherd's on Wheeling
creek, a few miles above its mouth. There were also others
established in various parts of the country and on the
Monongahela and Ohio rivers. Nutter's fort, near to Clarksburg,
afforded protection to the inhabitants on the West Fork, from
its source, to its confluence with the Valley river; and to
those who lived on Buchannon and on Hacker's creek, as well as
to the residents of its immediate vicinity.

[13] June 20, Col. William Preston, having charge of the
defenses of Fincastle county, authorized Capt. William Russell
to employ two faithful woodsmen to go to Kentucky and inform
the several surveying parties at work there, of their danger.
June 26, Russell replied, "I have engaged to start immediately
on the occasion, two of the best hands I could think of--Daniel
Boone and Michael Stoner; who have engaged to reach the country
as low as the Falls, and to return by way of Gasper's Lick on
Cumberland, and through Cumberland Gap; so that, by the
assiduity of these men, if it is not too late, I hope the