Yellow Creek massacre

The Yellow Creek massacre was a brutal killing of several Mingo Indians by Virginia frontiersmen on April 30, 1774.
The atrocity occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country, near the current site of the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort. It was the single most important incident contributing to the outbreak of Lord Dunmore's War . It was carried out by a group led by Jacob Greathouse and Daniel Greathouse. The perpetrators were never brought to justice.

This incident was all the worse because Mingo leader Logan was a good friend of the English-speaking settlers in the region. Chief Logan was away on a hunt but his wife Mellana, his brother Taylaynee , Taylaynee's son Molnah and their sister Koonay were among the slain. Koonay was also the wife of John Gibson , a prominent trader between the English and various Native American groups. At the time of the massacre, these groups were on a trading expedition to the Shawnee.

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