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April 6th
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Party sent by a circuit into their rear thro the woods, unexpectedly
fired in them killed some on the spot & put the rest to shifting
for themselves -

Our diet here was indian corn and milk, for breakfast & Sapper,
Indian bread and bear flesh for dinner, yet we were healthy and strong

We were delayed here much against our will thinking we held our
lives by a very precarious tenure, for the people on our first coming
looked upon us a little better than savages, which was very excuseable
considering how we had been represented, and besides that they had sufferd
very severely from the inroads of those people - One man in particular
had last year lost his son, and had had fourscore of his horses & mares
carryed off, yet this man was reconciled upon hearing a true state of
facts, and Colonel Bowman acted as a person above prejudice by rendering
us every service in his power -

11.th William Moyres, Colonel Clarkes messenger with letters to the {Governor}
of Virginia, was killed on the road from the falls to this place,
the letters and prisoners as we supposed carried off to Detroit -

17.th {Colonel} Bowman having sent to Logans fort for horses, they arrived
this day, He was so obliging as to let me have one of his own -

19.th we set out for Logan's fort 20 miles distant, where we arrived at
7 pm. tis an oblong square formed by the houses making a double
street, at the angles were stockaded bastions - the situation is romantic,
among wooded hills, a Stream of fine water passes at the foot of these
hills which turns a small grist mill - They had been frequently
alarmed & harryfid by the Indians, Captain Logan the person
commanding here had had his arm broken by a buckshot in a
skirmish with them, & was not yet recoverd - the poeple here were
not exceedingly well disposed to us, and we were accosted by the females
especially in pretty course terms - but the Captain and his wife, who
had a brother carryed off by the Indians, were very civil and hospitable -