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APPENDIX.
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  Danville, December 18th, 1799.

We certify that col. William M’Kee this day ſigned the original certificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our preſence.

JAMES SPEED, Jun. 
J. H. DEWEES.


The certificate of the hon. 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 col. 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 Williamſburgh head, at the foot is this certificate.]

“The foregoing is a copy taken by me, when a boy, at ſchool, in the year 1775, or at fartheſt in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket-book, containing papers and manuſcripts of that period.”]

STEVENS THOMPSON MASON, 

January 20th, 1798.


A copy of LOGAN's ſpeech given by the late general MERCER, who fell in the battle of Trenton, January, 1776, to LEWIS WILLIS, Eſquire, of Frederickſburgh, in Virginia, upwards of 20 years ago, (from the date of February, 1798,) communicated through MANN PAGE, Eſquire.

“The SPEECH of LOGAN, a Shawaneſe chief, to lord Dunmore.”