Doddridge locates Wapatomica “about sixteen miles below the present Coshocton.” Butterfield (History of the Girtys) places it “just below the present Zanesville, in Logan county, Ohio, not a great distance from Mac-a-cheek.” For localities of Indian towns on the Muskingum, see map in St. John de Creve Cœur’s Lettres d’un Cultivateur Américain (Paris, 1787), III., p. 413.––R. G. T.
John Hargus, a private in Capt. Cresap’s company, while stationed as a vidette below the main army, observed an Indian several times raising his head above his blind, and looking over the river. Charging his rifle with a second ball, he fired, and both bullets passed through the neck of the Indian, who was found next day and scalped by Hargus.
Logan was the son of Shikellemus, a celebrated chief of the Cayuga nation, who dwelt at Shamokin, and always attached to the [118] English, was of much service to them on many occasions. After the close of Dunmore’s war, Logan became gloomy and melancholy, drank freely and manifested symptoms of mental derangement. He remained some time at Detroit, and while there, his conduct and expressions evinced a weariness of the world. Life he said had become a burden to him, he knew no more what pleasure was, and thought it had been better if he had never existed. In this disponding and disconsolate condition he left Detroit, and on his way between that place and Miami, is said to have been murdered.
See p. 149, note, for account of the massacre.––R. G. T.
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