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JOHN LOGAN (c. 1725-1780)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 866 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:LOGAN (c. 1725-1780)  , also known as TAHGAHJUTE, See also:American See also:Indian See also:chief, a Cayuga by See also:birth, was the son of Shikellamy, a See also:white See also:man who had been captured when a See also:child by the See also:Indians, had been reared among them, and had become chief of the Indians living on the See also:Shamokin See also:Creek in what is now See also:Northumberland See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania . The name See also:Logan was given to the son in See also:honour of See also:James Logan (1674—1751), secretary of See also:William See also:Penn and a steadfast friend of the Indians . See also:John Logan lived for some See also:time near Reedsville, Penn., and removed to the See also:banks of the See also:Ohio See also:river about 1770 . He was not technically a chief, but acquired See also:great See also:influence among the Shawnees, into which tribe he married . He was on See also:good terms with the whites until See also:April 1774, when, See also:friction having arisen between the Indians and the whites, a See also:band of marauders, led by one Great-See also:house, attacked and murdered several Indians, including, it appears, Logan's See also:sister and possibly one or more other relatives . Believing that See also:Captain See also:Michael Cresap was responsible for this See also:murder, Logan sent him a See also:declaration of hostilities, the result of which was the bloody conflict known as See also:Lord See also:Dunmore's See also:War . Logan refused to join the See also:Shawnee chief, Cornstalk, in See also:meeting See also:Governor Dunmore in a See also:peace See also:council after the See also:battle of Point Pleasant, but sent him a See also:message which has become famous as an example of Indian eloquence . The message seems to have been given by Logan to See also:Colonel John See also:Gibson, by whom it was delivered to Lord Dunmore . See also:Thomas See also:Jefferson first called See also:general See also:attention to it in his Notes on See also:Virginia (1787), where he quoted it and added: " I may See also:challenge the whole orations of See also:Demosthenes and See also:Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if See also:Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage See also:superior to it." Logan became a victim of drink, and in 178o was killed near See also:Lake See also:Erie by his See also:nephew whom he had attacked . There is a See also:monument to him in See also:Fair See also:Hill See also:Cemetery, near See also:Auburn, New See also:York . Brantz See also:Mayer's Tahgahjute, or Logan the Indian and Captain Michael Cresap (See also:Baltimore, 1851, and ed., See also:Albany, 1867) defends Captain Cresap against Jefferson's charges, and also questions the authenticity of Logan's message, about which there has been considerable controversy, though its actual wording seems to be that of Gibson rather than of Logan .

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