The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8 · Thomas Jefferson
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
And he declares that when Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia" were published, and he came to peruse the same, he was struck with the speech of Logan as there set forth, as being substantially the same, and accordant with the speech he heard rehearsed in the camp as aforesaid. Signed, WILLIAM M'KEE. DANVILLE, December 18th, 1799. We certify that Colonel William M'Kee this day signed the original certificate, of which the foregoing is a true copy, in our presence. JAMES SPEED, Junior. J. H. DEWEES. * * * * * _The Certificate of the Honorable Stevens Thompson Mason, one of the Senators in Congress from the State of Virginia._ "Logan's Speech, delivered at the Treaty, after the battle in which Colonel Lewis was killed in 1774." [Here follows a copy of the speech agreeing verbatim with that printed in Dixon and Hunter's Virginia Gazette of February 4, 1775, under the Williamsburg head. At the foot is this certificate.] "The foregoing is a copy taken by me, when a boy, at school, in the year 1775, or at farthest in 1776, and lately found in an old pocket-book, containing papers and manuscripts of that period.
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