“ I have left their calumnies unanswered but in the meantime have asked the favor of gentlemen who have it in their power to procure me what information they can as I mean to prepare a correct statement of the facts respecting the murder of Logan’s family, to be inserted by way of amendment into the text of the Notes on Virginia. this I hope to be able to publish next winter when in Philadelphia, so I have asked from my friends to furnish me whatever they shall have collected by the month of December next. material from the evidence will probably be published in support of the text as it will be amended. the information will mention [illegible] affidavits where convenient, or of certificate or letter where not so. minute details will be most desirable. any assistance you can give me in procuring this or any other material information on the subject will be very thankfully recieved, my distance from the evidence of persons acquainted with the transaction rendering it impracticable for me to obtain it otherwise than by the aid of my friends. I would also ask to recieve it by or before the month of December. I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you but as you have been so kind as to offer your aid . . . ”

On December 6 Innes sent to Jefferson the depositions of Charles Polke and Jacob Newlan with a long letter from himself, which Jefferson answered from Philadelphia on January 23, 1800: “ Your favor of Dec. 6. I recieved here on the 30 ^th. of the same month, and have to thank you for the papers it contained. they serve to prove that if Cressap was not of the party of Logan’s murderers, yet no injury was done his character by believing it. I shall while here this winter publish such material testimony on the subject as I have recieved; which by the kindness of my friends will be amply sufficient. it will appear that the deed was generally imputed to Cressap by both whites & Indians, that his character was justly stained with their blood, perhaps that he ordered this transaction, but that he was not himself present at the time. I shall consequently make a proper change in the text of the Notes on Virginia, to be adopted if any future edition of that work should be printed . . . ”

On March 14 in the same year General John Gibson wrote from Pittsburgh to Jefferson: “I recieved the enclosed letter from a M ^r. Luther Martin of Baltimore requesting me to answer the Queries therein contained. But as I am fully convinced he is actuated by party spirit, more than by any other consideration, I shall not return him answer until I hear from you, in the mean time permit me to request you to send me a Copy of the last letter I wrote to you, when I shall be able to Give you a deposition of every thing, I know concerning it . . .”

Jefferson replied on March 21: “ I recieved last night your favor of the 14 ^th. and now inclose you a copy of your letter. I was within a day or two of putting into the press the evidence I had collected on this subject. I have been long in collecting it, because of the distance & dispersion of those acquainted with the transaction. however I have at length thot of a dozen or fifteen persons, who clear up the mystery which threw doubt on this phase of history. it appears that instead of one, there were four different murders committed on the Indians. the 1 ^st. by Creasp & his party a little above Wheeling, on two Indians. the 2 ^d. by the same persons on the same or the next day on a party of Indians encamped below Wheeling at the mouth of Grave creek, among whom were some of Logan’s relations. the Indians have returned the fire & wounded one of Cresap’s party. the 3 ^d. by Greathouse & Tomlinson a few days after this was a hunting party of Indian men, women & children encamped at the mouth of Yellow creek opposite to Baker’s bottom. Greathouse went to their camp as a friend; found them too strong, and invited them over to Baker’s to drink. they came over, were furnished with as much rum as they could drink, & when the men were quite drunk Greathouse’s party fell on & massacred the whole except a little girl Logan’s cousin whom they made prisoner. here his sister was murdered and some other of his relations. the Indians over the river, alarmed at the guns, sent over two canoes of men to use for their friends. Greathouse & his party recieved them as they approached the shore with a well directed fire and killed and wounded several. at this massacre Baker says there were 12. killed & 5. or 6. wounded. the popular report, at a distance ”