Saturday, May 3, 2003
Ohio Moments
Massacre pitted whites vs. Native Americans
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Logan
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On May 3, 1774, settlers from Virginia entered the village of the Mingo Indians near Yellow Creek and killed about a dozen Native Americans. Among them were the mother and sister of Chief Logan.
Logan had advocated peace with whites until the massacre. Afterward, he urged Mingo and Shawnee Indians to avenge the deaths. He led a contingent into Pennsylvania and killed 13 whites.
In August, Pennsylvania militia entered the Ohio Country and destroyed seven Mingo villages, whose inhabitants had fled. The governor of Virginia sent men to what is now West Virginia to build a fort from which to attack the Shawnee in Ohio. Cornstalk, Shawnee leader, answered by amassing more than 1,000 Indians.
The factions clashed in October in what would be called the Battle of Point Pleasant. It ended with the Treaty of Camp Charlotte.
Rebecca Goodman
E-mail rgoodman@enquirer.com or call (513) 768-8361.
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