LOGAN, .Tuts (e.1725-S0). A famous Indian chief. the son of Shikellamr, a Cayuga chief noted for his friendship with the whites. real (Indian) name was Tag:1101lb% but he was generally known by his English name, Logan, given to hint in honor of James Logan, William Penn's secretary and a steadfast friend • the natives. For some time prior to his removal to the•hanks of the Ohio. about 1770. he lived near Ileedsville. Pa., hunting and trading with the set tlers, and soon been me well known 1111 the Penn sylvania and Virgini.1 frontier as a brave chief. always friendly to the whites. He also became exceedingly nopular the Indians. and about this time was chosen by the Mimmes as their chief. About this time. too, he became mueli addicted to intemperance. In April. 1771, sev eral whites, headed by a man named Greathouse, the keeper of a whisky shop. murdered nearly the whole of Logan's family in cold blood at Yellow Creek. Logan, frenzied by this blow, incited the already restive Indians forthwith to attack the whites, and in the brief war which ensued (see Di NMORE'S WAR) was himself con spiennus for ferocity and cruelly, taking with his own hands a, many as thirty scalps. Ile dis
dained to sue for peace along with the other •hiefs, after the battle of Point Pleasant (q.v.), and instead sent to Lord Dunmore, by a trader named John Git -on. a message which i- re garded as one of the finest examples of Indian loquence, though it- :unbent iiity has been called into question. Its charge against Captain (recap is certainly false, and it undnubteill• owes much to subsequent changes and -Jef f( rson in his of, S on I i ry? nia quitted it (with modifications), and directed general atten tion to it. After Lord Dunmore', \\ar Logan IK•cante more and more intemperate. Finally (17S0 t, while in a drunken frenzy, he clubbed his wife, fled. attacked a banl of Indians. and was killed by his nephew in self-defense. C't stilt Brantz-Alayer, Tam:11)11k'. or Liman it Indian, and 'aptai ]Belo, 1, Cr cm, NUNV York, IS67).