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Book Title: Historical Collections Of Virginia By Henry Howe, 1845

Logan p 352

Logan was formed in 1824, from Giles, Kanawha, Cabell, and Tazewell, and named
from the Mingo chief. It is about 70 miles long, with a mean width of 35 miles.
It is watered by Guyandotte, Tug Fork of Big Sandy, and branches of the Great
Kanawha. The surface is generally mountainous, and the soil adapted to grazing.
It is one of the largest, wildest, and most sparsely inhabited counties in the
state, with a population of less than 2 persons to a square mile. Pop. in 1840,
whites 4,159, slaves 150; total 4,309. 

Lawnsville, or Logan C.H., is 351 miles west of Richmond, in a fertile bottom in
a bend of the river Guyandotte, surrounded by mountains abounding in stone-coal
and iron ore. It was laid off in 1827, and contains a few dwellings only. 

The destruction of the Roanoke settlement in the spring of 1757, by a party of
Shawnees, gave rise to a campaign into this region of country, called by the old
settlers "the Sandy creek voyage." This expedition was for the purpose of
punishing the Indians, and to establish a military post at the mouth of the
Great Sandy, to counteract the influence of the French at Gallipolis with the
Indians. It was composed of four companies, under the command of Andrew lewis.
The captains were Audley Paul, Wm. Preston (ancestor of the late Gov. P.,) Wm.
Hogg, and John Alexander, father of Archibald Alexander, D.D., president of
Princeton Theological Seminary. The party were ordered by a messenger from Gov.
Fauquier, to return. They had then penetrated nearly to the Ohio, without
accomplishing any of the objects of their expedition. When the army on their
return arrived at the Burning spring, in the present limits of this county, they
had suffered much from the extreme cold, as well as hunger: their fear of
alarming the Indians having prevented them from either hunting or kindling
fires. Some buffalo hides, which they had left at the spring on their way down,
were cut into tuggs or long thongs, and eaten by the troops, after having been
exposed to the heat from the flame of the spring. Hence they called the stream
near by, now dividing Kentucky from Virginia, Tugg River, which name it yet
bears. Several who detached themselves from the main body, to hunt their way
home, perished. The main body, under Col. Lewis, reached home after much
suffering; the strings of their moccasins, the belts of their hunting-shirts,
and the flaps of their shot-pouches, having been all the food they had eaten for
several days.

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