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APPENDIX.
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moſt violent agitations, and that he afterwards underſtood that, amongſt the Indians killed at Yellow creek, was a ſiſter of Logan very big with child, whom they ripped open, and ſtuck on a pole: that he continued with the Indians till the month of November, when he was releaſed in conſequence of the peace made by them with lord Dunmore: that, while he remained with them, the Indians in general were very kind to him; and eſpecially thoſe who were his adopted relations; but above all, the old woman and family in which he lived, who ſerved him with every thing in their power, and never aſked, nor even ſuffered him to do any labor, ſeeming in truth to confider and reſpect him, as the friend they had loſt. All which ſeveral matters and things, ſo far as they are ſtated to be of his own knowledge, this ſubſcriber ſolemnly declares to be true, and ſo far as they are ſtated on information from others he believes them to be true. Given and declared under his hand at Philadelphia, this 28th day of February, 1800.

WILLIAM ROBINSON. 


The depoſition of col. William M’Kee, of Lincoln county, Kentucky, communicated by the honorable John Brown, one of the Senators in Congreſs from Kentucky.

Colonel William M’Kee of Lincoln county declareth, that in autumn 1774, he commanded as a captain in the Bottetourt Regiment under col. Andrew Lewis, afterwards gen. Lewis; and