Note 5 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 8)

Col. Benjamin Logan to Governor Randolph, Dec. 17, 1786: “Sept. 14, 1786, I received orders [from Clark] to collect a sufficient number of men in the District of Kentucky to march against the Shawnee’s Towns. Agreeable to said orders I collected 790 men, and on the 6th of October I attacked the above mentioned Towns, killed ten of the chiefs of that nation, captured thirty-two prisoners, burnt upwards of two hundred dwelling houses and supposed to have burnt fifteen thousand bushels of corn, took some horses and cattle, killed a number of hogs, and took near one thousand pounds value of Indian furniture, and the quantity of furniture we burnt I can not account for.” The force was on duty “not above twenty-seven days ... and I would venture to say the expenses will be found to be very moderate.”––R. G. T.