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

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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

of friendship, invited them to an entertainment.

Without sus

picion of treachery, part of the Indians accepted the invitation, and while engaged in drinking some of them in a state of

The

were set upon and butchered in cold blood.

intoxication

Indians who had remained at their encampment, hearing the noise

of the treacherous attack, ran to their canoes to rescue their This movement had been anticipated, and sharp

friends.

shooters stationed in ambuscade, shot numbers of them in their

canoes, and compelled the others to return. brother and sister were among the slain.

Logan's mother,

These transactions were soon followed by another outrage, which, though of less magnitude, was not less atrocious. An aged and inoffensive Lenape chief, named the Bald Eagle, while r eturning

was

from a

visit to

the fort at the north of the Kanhawa,

shot while alone in his canoe.

Not satisfied