Le Nord-Ouest sous trois drapeaux, 1635-1796 . r-son parlait du colonel Cresap. Le colonel Cresap était le père ; theson était alors capitaine et jusqu'à sa mort.—Voir Whittleseys FugitiveEssays, p. 143, et Butterfields Histoire des Girtys, p. 29. Logan était un fils du chef Skikellamy, qui vivait à Shamokin, sur la Susquehanna. Le père était peut-être un Français qui s'est transformé en Indien. Logan a été nommée pour son lathersfriend, James Logan, à un moment secrétaire de la colonie de Pennsyl-vania. Bien qu'il ne soit pas techniquement un chef, il était uot sans suivi ; son père était de l'Iroquo

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The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . r-son spoke of Colonel Cresap. Colonel Cresap was the father ; theson was a captain then and until his death.—See Whittleseys FugitiveEssays, p. 143, and Butterfields History of the Girtys, p. 29. Logan was a son of the chief Skikellamy, who lived at Shamokin, on the Susquehanna. Perhaps the father was a Frenchman who hadbeen transformed into an Indian. Logan was named for his lathersfriend, James Logan, at one time Secretary of the colony of Pennsyl-vania. Although not technically a chief, he was uot without follow-ers ; his father was of the Iroquois, but Logan married a Shawanese.During the Revolution he was actively employed by the British untilaboul 1780, when he was killed in self-defence by a relative. Havingbecome a victim of the Englishmans rum, he struck his wife while atDetroit, and escaped into the forest lest he should be killed by herpeople. Meeting one of his relatives while in a crazy condition, Logan attacked him and wras shot.—See Brantz Mayers Logan andCresap. 193. simon KENTON(From a paiutiug by Robert Clarke, Cincinnati, Ohio) , ENGLAND TAKES POSSESSION tory, nevertheless they joined with the army in thank-ing Lord Dunmore for his leadership in the expedition.Perhaps, however, the vote of thanks passed by the as-sembly of officers, held when they reached Fort Gower, at the mouth of the Hocking, was intended to takethe personal sting out of the remaining resolutions, wherein the backwoods Yirginians proclaimed that, al-though bearing faithful allegiance to George III., theywere resolved to exert every power within them k for thedefence of American liberty, and for the support of herjust rights and privileges, not in any precipitous, riot-ous, or tumultuous manner, but when regularly calledforth by the unanimous voice of our countrymen.Thus at the very beginning of the struggle for inde-pendence the men of the frontiers, gathered on the soilof the Northwest, pledged the new lands to freedom.1 During the

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