the introduction of Christianity by the Moravians. great friend of the celebrated James Logan,

He was a

who accompanied

Penn on his last voyage to America, and who subsequently became distinguished in the colony for his learning and benevo lence. Hence the name of his son. LOGAN married a Sbawanoe woman and removed from his father's lodge to the Ohio country where he became a chief, and, from the fact of his He was a friend intermarriage with the Shawanoes, a Mingoe. of the white men,

by education and association, and one of the only by right of birth, but in considera

noblest of his race, not

own character. During the Indian wars connected with the contest with France, he took no part save in the cha racter of a peace-maker. In the spring of 1774, a company of tion of his

came in collision with the

land "agents and traders on the Ohio Indians, and

in

retaliation

the loss of two of their

for

men,

succeeded in killing LOGAN'S entire family, including his young est

brother and

his

sister.

For

this and similar acts,

LOGAN

placed himself at the head of a band of Ohio Senecas, and, in company with the Lenapes and Shawanoes under Cornstalk, in

vaded the Virginia border with fire and tomahawk. At the of with LOGAN not was On Dunmore, peace treaty present. being visited for the purpose of securing his assent to the terms, he delivered the famous speech which Jefferson has preserved in his Notes on Virginia,