Not satisfied with these achievements, the party pushed for ward to attack the encampment of Logan, a Mingoe chief, near the mouth of Yellow creek. The expedition was abandoned without

consummation,

only

to

be

transferred

to

others.

named Baker had Opposite Logan's encampment erected a cabin and engaged in the sale of rum. At this cabin a trader

whom was one Daniel

a party of flying settlers

met, among Greathouse who acted as their leader.

it is

said,

Logan and his Indians, had determined to cut off Baker, 1 and that the latter,

Stone's Life and Times of Sir Wm. The attack, however, appears Johnson. to have been wholly without justification, The following is the account given in " Received Colonial History, vm, 464 information from Captain Crawford and one Mr. Nevill, from Virginia, that on :

their way to this place they met a number

of inhabitants settled below this, moving off,

among whom was a party who preseven Indian scalps, and stated their having taken them in the following sented

manner

:

That a number of Indians having encamped at the mouth of Yellow creek, they with one Grithouse had collee ted themselves at the house of one Baker opposite to the said Indian camp, and decoyed the Indian men, and two women over to their side of the river to

drink with

them, who, upon

finding

THE INDIAN TRIBES

warned by a friendly squaw to escape, invited the aid of Greathouse, who organized a band of thirty-two men and crossed the river for the purpose of falling upon the Indians ; but finding that they were too strong for him, retreated, and, with a show