And the said William declareth that, on the evening of that day on which the junction of the troops took place, he was in company with Lord Dunmore and several of his officers, and also conversed with several who had been with Lord Dunmore at the treaty; said William, on that evening, heard repeated conversations concerning an extraordinary speech at the treaty, or sent there by a chieftain of the Indians named Logan, and heard several attempts at a rehearsal of it. The speech as rehearsed excited the particular attention of said William, and the most striking members of it were impressed on his memory.
And he declares that when Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia" were published, and he came to peruse the same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there set forth, as being substantially the same, and accordant with the speech he heard rehearsed in the camp as aforesaid.
Signed, WILLIAM M'KEE.
Danville, December 18th, 1799.
We certify that Colonel William M'Kee this day signed the original certificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our presence.
JAMES SPEED, Junior.
J. H. DEWEES.
The Certificate of the Honorable Stevens Thompson Mason, one of the Senators in Congress from the State of Virginia.
"Logan's Speech, delivered at the Treaty, after the battle in which Colonel Lewis was killed in 1774."
[Here follows a copy of the speech agreeing verbatim with that printed in Dixon and Hunter's Virginia Gazette of February 4, 1775, under the Williamsburg head. At the foot is this certificate.]