Owing to the large amount of discussion concerning Chief Logan, it is well for us to know a little about this famous Native American who the white settlers turned into a blood-thirsty killer during Dunsmores War. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Tachnedorus (c.1725–1780), usually known as Chief Logan or John Logan in historical records, was a Mingo Native American leader in the era before the American Revolutionary War, whose revenge for the brutal killing of his family members by white frontiersmen helped spark the conflict known as Dunmore's War. Also known as "The Great Mingo" and "Captain Johnny Logan," he has often been confused with his brother James Logan (Tah-gah-jute) in historical accounts. John Logan (Tachnedorus) was a village leader, not a tribal chief, but his white contemporaries and subsequent historians generally called any influential American Indian "chief." Those Iroquois who had migrated to the Ohio Country were usually called "Mingoes." Like his father, Logan maintained friendly relationships with white settlers who were moving from eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia into the Ohio Country, the region which is now Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania. That all changed with the Yellow Creek Massacre on 3 May 1774. A group of Virginia frontiersmen led by one Daniel Greathouse brutally murdered about a dozen Mingoes, among them Logan's mother, sister, and cousin, at the mouth of Yellow Creek near present-day Wellsville, Ohio along the Ohio River. (Capt. Cresap was blamed by Logan, but subsequent history reveals that Cresap probably hadd nothing to do with it.) Influential tribal chiefs in the region, such as Cornstalk (Shawnee), White Eyes (Lenape), and Guyasuta (Seneca/Mingo), attempted to negotiate a peaceful resolution lest the incident develop into a larger war, but by Native American custom Logan had the right to retaliate, and he intended to do just that. The chiefs managed to have Logan agree to take out his vengeance only on Virginians, not Pennsylvanians. Leading a war party of 13 Shawnees and Mingoes, Logan attacked settlements west of the Monongahela River. His reprisals were as brutal as the earlier murders, and he and his warriors killed numerous settlers, many of them women and children. White settlers fled in droves, and the royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, responded by going to war against the Mingoes and Shawnees, in the war that bears his name: Dunmore's War. Some of Dunmore's contemporaries, and some subsequent historians, have suspected that Dunmore had a hand in provoking the Yellow Creek Massacre with the intention of seizing the Ohio Country from the natives before the rival colony of Pennsylvania did so. The war ended with the defeat of Cornstalk — who reluctantly led his eager young men in the war — at the Battle of Point Pleasant, and the Native American peoples of the region were forced to recognize the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, surrendering their hunting lands in Kentucky. (Logan was probably not at Point Pleasant.) While Cornstalk conducted the negotiations for the defeated Indians, Logan refused to attend. Cornstalk, thinking the treaty would be strengthened by Cornstalks endorsement, sent a messenger to Logan to convince him to join the negotiations. Instead he sent a letter that would become famous. His speech, which has been acclaimed by some as one of the most eloquent of all history is inscribed on his memorial statue at the Chief Logan Park in Logan. It can be read on the Logan County Web site. The remainder of Logan's life is shrouded in obscurity. Along with many other Ohio natives, he participated in the American Revolutionary War against the Americans. It is thought that he was possibly murdered in 1780 by another Indian, possibly by a nephew. I have no record that identifies his wife or children. For another version of the Chief Logan story, visit the Mingo County web site. I believe the speech is recorded there also STAN On Thursday, June 15, 2006, at 01:23 PM, Jim Burgess wrote: > When was Chief Logan Born and when did he die? and Where born and died > - Do > we > know who he married? > > I would love to see a picture. > > jim@promobiz.biz > > Jim Burgess > > -