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,

and which has become familiar wher

ever the English language

is

spoken

:

"I

appeal to any white

man to say if he ever entered LOGAN'S cabin" hungry, and he gave him not meat ; clothed him not.

idle in his

Memorials Moravian Church,

Shikellimy is called

some writers,

ever he

came cold and naked and he

During the course of the last long and

war, Logan remained

if

i,

83.

a

Cayuga chief, by and his son a Mingoe, but

the testimony of Reichel seems clear that

bloody

cabin, an advocate for peace.

both were full-blooded Oneidas. Shikellimy had three sons, John, James Logan, and John Petty. He died in 1749. Loskiel, n,

119.

HUDSON R17ER INDIANS.

Such was my love

for the whites, that '

as they passed, and said,

my countrymen pointed,

Logan is the friend of the white men.'

had even thought to live with you, but for the injuries of one

man.

Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood and unpro

voked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood the veins of any living creature.