Word: cresap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to TIME appearing in the May 3 issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
...camp, an advocate of peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as I passed and said: 'Logan is the friend of the white man.' I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last Spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many...
...sending Logan's words to you I do not mean to question Mr. Cresap's statement that the Captain was entirely innocent of the charge. Logan may have been misinformed, as indeed I hope he was. I send the speech to you because I think it will interest you, as it does...
Twenty-five years after Cresap's death, Thomas Jefferson published his Notes on Virginia. In them he criticized the white settlers for their inhuman treatment of Indians and he used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together...
...MARK W. CRESAP Chicago...