first edition, 12mo, 124 pp., original leather shelf-back, and boards, marbled paper formerly covering boards mostly worn away, text browned and damp-stained, else a good copy. A mss note on the front free endpaper, possibly in the author's hand, states: "The reader will please to notice that all improper words are underscored thus - to shew him when to refer to the errata." Rare. The work is a defense of the record and reputation of Captain Cresap, accused of the barbaric murder in 1774 of the Indian family of the Mingo Chief, John Logan. In an impassioned speech delivered to the Governor of Virginia, and transmitted throughout the state, Logan placed the blame for the massacre squarely upon Cresap. Cresap was made an object of loathing, when Thomas Jefferson reiterated the charges and published Logan's speech in his Notes on Viginia. The charges were further published in Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars, of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, published in 1824, and which was the immediate cause of the publication of this now rare book. Cresap was later posthumously exonerated of the charges. Lawrence Wroth, in his biographical sketch in the Dictionary of American Biography, points out the suppression of facts by Jefferson in his discussion of the Cresap case. The author, a Revolutionary officer, was among the first to take up the defence of Cresap, he later married Cresap's widow. Housed in a recent ½ morocco and chemise slipcase. American Imprints 24967; Brinley 5512, "very scarce"; Eberstadt 135:431; Field 769; Graff 2185; Howes J-32; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379; Streeter 1335; Thomson 640. Not in Haynes.