[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] people, who approaching near the shore, murders committed by Cresap, who with observed the white people lying in ambush some.frontier banditti, causelessly mur-for them, and, attempting to return to dered near forty Indians on the Ohio. — their camp, were fired upon and two of Colonial History y vm, 471. OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 257 Senecas and Mingoes z led by Logan, threw themselves with fire and tomahawk upon the Virginia border. The war was nominally concluded in October. Immediately on its outbreak Dunmore organized a force of three thousand men and marched to the Ohio country. One of the divisions of this force, under Colonel Lewis, reached the mouth of the Great Kanhawa on the sixth, and was there attacked, on the tenth, by one thousand warriors of the western confederacy, under Cornstalk, who had determined to anticipate his junction with the main army under Dunmore. The battle was a despe rate one, and neither party could fairly claim the victory. The Virginians lost their commander, Colonel Lewis, one-half of their commissioned officers and fifty-two privates killed, while