biography
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Logan, James
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originally Tahgahjute [tagajoot]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?1723–80)
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| biography:
| American Indian leader, (probably named for the Quaker, James Logan), born in Sunbury (formerly Shamokin), Pennsylvania, USA. He was a friend of the white settlers until his family were killed at the Yellow Creek Massacre (Ohio, 1774). Dedicating himself to revenge, he refused to attend a peace meeting. Instead he allegedly sent a reply that was quoted in newspapers (and later used by Thomas Jefferson), including the eloquent plaint: ‘There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any other living creature...Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one!’ Logan continued to attack white settlements, and during the revolution brought scalps and prisoners to the British at Detroit. He was killed by a fellow-Indian near L Erie. |
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