Here Washington met twenty warriors, who were going to the southward to war, but had returned from Great Kenhawa, because there they found a family of seven people killed and scalped.
"Why did you return?" inquired Washington of a chief.
"For fear the inhabitants might take us to be the murderers," the chief replied.
"Did the condition of the bodies show that the massacre was recent?" Washington inquired further.
"Not very recent; the bodies were scattered about, and several of them were much eaten by hogs," was the chief's answer.
"Have you any suspicions as to who the murderers were?" urged Washington.
"Certain marks which they left behind showed that the butchery was done by Indians of the Ottawa nation," was the information given in answer to his question.
Mr. Frazier informed Washington that an Indian queen, living three miles distant, had taken offense because he did not call upon her on his way to the fort. As he was obliged to wait two days for horses, he paid her a visit and made her a present of a watch-coat.
Washington's final entry in his journal is: