his man caused deep regret, humiliation and shame to pervade the
greater part of the army, and none were more affected by it, than the
brave and generous Logan.--When the prisoners were conducted to the
house, it was with much difficulty the Indian lad could be prevailed
upon to quit the side of Lyttle.

The commencement of the year 1786 witnessed treaties of peace with all
the neighboring tribes;[8] but its progress was marked by acts of
general hostility. Many individual massacres were committed and in the
fall, a company of _movers_ were attacked, and twenty-one of them
killed. This state of things continuing, in 1787 the secretary of war
ordered detachments of troops to be stationed at [288] different
points for the protection of the frontier. Still the Indians kept up
such an incessant war against it, as after the adoption of the federal
constitution, led the general government to interpose more effectually
for the security of its inhabitants, by sending a body of troops to
operate against them in their own country.

While these things were doing, a portion of the country north west of
the river Ohio, began to be occupied by the whites. One million and a
half acres of land in that country, having been appropriated as
military land, a company, composed of officers and soldiers in the war
of the revolution, was formed in Boston in March 1786 under the title
of the [289] "Ohio Company," and Gen. Rufus Putnam was appointed its
agent. In the spring of 1788, he with forty-seven other persons, from
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, repaired to Marietta,
erected a stockade fort for security against the attacks of Indians,
and effected a permanent settlement there.[9] In the autumn of the
same year, twenty families, chiefly from Essex and Middlesex counties
in Massachusetts, likewise moved there, and the forests of lofty
timber fell before their untiring and laborious exertions. Many of
those who thus took up their abodes in that, then _distant_ country
had been actively engaged in the late war, and were used, not only to
face danger with firmness when it came upon them; but also to devise
and practice, means to avert it. Knowing the implacable resentment of
the savages to the whites generally, they were at once careful not to
provoke it into action, and to prepare to ward off its effects. In
consequence of this course of conduct, and their assiduity and
attention to the improvement of their lands, but few massa