heek." For localities of
Indian towns on the Muskingum, see map in St. John de Creve
Coeur's _Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain_ (Paris, 1787),
III., p. 413.--R. G. T.

[17] John Hargus, a private in Capt. Cresap's company, while
stationed as a vidette below the main army, observed an Indian
several times raising his head above his blind, and looking
over the river. Charging his rifle with a second ball, he
fired, and both bullets passed through the neck of the Indian,
who was found next day and scalped by Hargus.

[18] Logan was the son of Shikellemus, a celebrated chief of
the Cayuga nation, who dwelt at Shamokin, and always attached
to the [118] English, was of much service to them on many
occasions. After the close of Dunmore's war, Logan became
gloomy and melancholy, drank freely and manifested symptoms of
mental derangement. He remained some time at Detroit, and while
there, his conduct and expressions evinced a weariness of the
world. Life he said had become a burden to him, he knew no more
what pleasure was, and thought it had been better if he had
never existed. In this disponding and disconsolate condition he
left Detroit, and on his way between that place and Miami, is
said to have been murdered.

[19] See p. 149, _note_, for account of the massacre.--R. G. T.

[121] CHAPTER VII.

When information of the hostile deportment of the Indians was carried
to Williamsburg, Col. Charles Lewis sent a messenger with the
intelligence to Capt. John Stuart, and requesting of him, to apprize
the inhabitants on the Greenbrier river that an immediate war was
anticipated, and to send out scouts to watch the warrior's paths
beyond the settlements. The vigilance and activity of Capt. Stuart,
were exerted with some success, to prevent the re-exhibition of those
scenes which had been previously witnessed on Muddy creek and in the
Big Levels: but they could not avail to repress them altogether.

In the course of the preceding spring, some few individuals had begun
to make improvements on the Kenhawa river below the Great Falls; and
some land adventurers, to examine and survey portions of the adjoining
country. To these men Capt. Stuart despatched an express, to inform
them that apprehensions were entertained of immediate irruptions being
made upon the frontiers by the Indians, a