tive of Augusta in the house of burgesses, and
voted for Henry's resolutions of 1765; was a member of the conventions
of 1776 and 1788. He married a Miss Strother, of Stafford. The second
son, Samuel, died without issue. Andrew commanded at Point Pleasant.
William, of the Sweet Springs, was distinguished in the frontier wars,
and was an officer in the revolutionary army. He married first, Anne
Montgomery, of Delaware, secondly, a Miss Thomson, a relative of the
poet of "The Seasons." The fifth son, Colonel Charles Lewis, fell at
Point Pleasant.

[589:B] Lyman C. Draper, in Va. Hist. Register.

CHAPTER LXXVII.

Logan--Kenton--Girty--Dunmore's ambiguous Conduct--His
grandson, Murray.

LOGAN, the Cayuga chief, assented to the treaty, but, still indignant at
the murder of his family, refused to attend with the other chiefs at the
camp, and sent his speech in a wampum-belt by an interpreter: "I appeal
to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and he
gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him
not? During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained
idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the
whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is
the friend of white men.' I have even thought to have lived with you,
but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in
cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not
sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in
the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have
sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my
country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought
that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on
his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."
Tah-gah-jute, or Logan, so named after James Logan, the secretary of
Pennsylvania, was the son of Shikellamy, a celebrated Cayuga chief, who
dwelt at Shamokin, on the picturesque banks of the Susquehanna. When
Logan grew to man's estate, living in the vicinity of the white
settlers, he appears, about the year 1767, to have found the means of
his livelihood in hunting deer, dressing their skins, and selling them.
When the daughter of a neighboring gentleman was just beginning to walk,
her mother one day happening to say that she was sorry