The settlers on the border sent messengers to Governor Dunmore at Williamsburg for immediate relief parties.

Knowing well that the Indians would not allow this massacre to go unavenged the frontiersmen erected forts and blockhouses.
Logan, the famous Mingo chief, had been a noted friend of the white men.

After the murder of his people he made ceaseless war upon them.
He incited the wrath of the Hurons and the Delawares.

He went on the warpath, and when his lust for vengeance had been satisfied he sent the following remarkable address to Lord Dunmore: "I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed him not.

During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate of peace.