Abstract
In the spring of 1774, several friends and family members of a Cayuga Indian leader known as John Logan were massacred along the Ohio River near the mouth of Yellow Creek, 40 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The murders were committed by a group of approximately 30 frontier malcontents led by Daniel Greathouse and John Baker. Logan was absent when the crime was committed, and by the time the news reached him, the perpetrators had fled inland to the safety of the eastern settlements. Overwhelmed by grief and rage, he sought to avenge his murdered family by attacking vulnerable settlements at the far western edge of the frontier. The first of these strikes were in the Ohio Country, but by early fall, Logan and a cadre of warriors under his command had ranged as far south as present-day Tennessee. Logan's name struck both fear and hatred in the hearts of frontier residents, especially those at Pittsburgh.