Captain Logan

[4] According to Logan's friend John Allen, Logan was of mixed-blood, and his Native mother, ( based on family history book, The Renick's of Greenbrier, Moluntha aka Joshua Renick was his father and Nonhelema, Chief Cornstalk's daughter, "The Grenadier Squaw," was his mother, see paintings city signs for both ), was related to Tecumseh.

[1] In the 1840s, decades after Logan's death, an unverified story emerged that his father was a white man named Joshua Renick, who had been captured around 1761 and raised by Natives.

[1] In 1806, he served as an interpreter for Blue Jacket and Tecumseh when they traveled to Chillicothe, capital of the new U.S. state of Ohio, to reassure the governor that Shawnees posed no threat to American settlers.

In July 1812, Logan visited Fort Malden in Upper Canada in an unsuccessful attempt to convince Tecumseh to abandon the British alliance.

[1] Historian John Sugden described the meeting: Tecumseh and James Logan were friends, both destined to end their lives in this war, fighting for different "Fathers" in whose causes they took no intrinsic interest.

[8]Thanks in no small part to Tecumseh's efforts, General Hull's expedition to Detroit ended with his surrender in August 1812, which left American outposts like Fort Wayne exposed to counterattack.

[1] Johnston then hired Logan to serve as a guide and scout for a new American army, this time commanded by William Henry Harrison.

[1] In November 1812, Logan's party was scattered by a superior force while scouting near the rapids of the Maumee River.

On November 22, 1812, Logan sought to prove his reliability by leading another scouting mission back towards the rapids.

Scouting on foot, he and two Shawnee companions, Captain Johnny[9] and Bright Horn, were captured by a mounted party led by Winamac, a Potawatomi war chief.

[1] General Winchester reported his death to Harrison, writing that "more firmness and consummate bravery has seldom appeared in the military theatre.