"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

" SAM:" OR, THE HISTORY OF MIYSTERY.
troops and a few treimblingr officials, while the zealous cooperation of an intelligent, firm, energetic, and overwhelming majority of the people gave to the Congress all the
strength of an established government.
While the colonies were thus busy in defense of their rights,
the frontiers of Pennsylvania and Virginia had been again
visited by Indian war. Surveyors, sent under the royal
authority, at the request of the Assembly of Virginia, to extend the western limits of that province, had pushed their
explorations to a great distance westward. Some of these
surveyors had descended the Ohio as far as the Falls, and had
traced up the Kentucky a considerable distance from its
mouth. Collisions took place between these explorers and
the Indians on the Ohio. Under the impulse of a false rumor
of previous hostilities on the part of the Indians, nine persons, the family of Logan, a chief distinguishled for friendship
to the whites, were murdered in coll blood. This and other
similar attrocities excited the Indians to revenge. The jurisdiction of the region about Pittsburgh was still disputed
between Virginia and Pennsylvania. St. Clair and others,
who recognized the authority of Pennsylvania, endeavored
to conciliate matters, and an appeal was made to Sir William
Johnson, by the Pennsylvania authorities, to iinduce the Six
Nations to act as mediators. Just at this time Sir William
died, but the business was undertaken by his son-in-law, Guy
Johnson, soon appointed his successor as superintendent of the
Northern Indians. While these efforts for peace were made
by Pennsylvania, Conolly and others in the Virginia interest
were bent on war, in which they were fully supported by
Governor Dunmore. Daniel Boone was sent to guide back
by land the surveyors employed on the Lower Ohio; after
which he was placed in command of a frontier fort. Volunteers to march against the Indians were easily obtained.
Major MI'Donald, with four hundred men, having assembled
at Fish Creek, on the Ohio, just below Wheeling, marched
against and destroyed the Shawanese village on the Musking(um, some fifteen miles below the present Coshocton; but
the Indians made their escape. Dunlmore himself, with
fifteen hundred men, presently moved agoainst the Indian
villages on the Scioto, while Colonel Lewis, with another division of twelve hundred men, descended the Kanawha. Near
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