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From Virginia Genealogies and Biographies, Vol. II, "Prominent Persons," Lyman Gardiner Tyler, ed., 1915, republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1998, p. 138:
"Logan, Benjamin, born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1743, son of David Logan, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to this country, settled in Pennsylvania, ther married, and later located in Augusta county, Virginia, where he died in 1757; upon attaining his majority, Benjamin Logan removed to the Holston river, where he purchased lands; he served in the wars against the Indians, 1764; served in Dunmore's Indian war, 1774; joined Boone's party of settlers en route to Kentucky in 1775 and left the party and settled in what is now Lincoln county, Kentucky, where with the help of his brother John he build Fort Logan, and removed his family thither the following year, 1776, but settled them for a time at Harrod's Fort, where they would be less exposed to Indian attacks; in 1777 his family joined him at Logan's Fort, he having been reinforced by a number of white men; on May 20, 1777, the fort was besieged by a hundred Indians, the siege continuing for weeks, until the garrison had about exhausted their ammunition and provisions, when Logan, attended by two companions, left the fort under cover of the night, and made a rapid journey of one hundred fifty miles to the Holston settlement, where he procured powder and lead, and hastily returned, leaving his comopanions to follow with a relief party under Col. John Bowman, who dispersed the savages; in July, 1779, he was second in command of over three hundred men under Col. Bowman in an expedition against the Indian settlement of Chillicothe, and in the summer of 1788 he again conducted an expedition against the Northwestern tribes; he was a delegate to the convention of 1792 that framed the first constitution of Kentucky, and to the second constitutional convention of 1799; was also a representative in the Kentucky legislature for several years; Logan county, Kentucky, formed in 1792, was named in his honor; he married Ann, daughter of William Montgomery; he died in Shelby county, Kentucky, December 11, 1802."

Spouse	Elizabeth Montgomery ( - )
Child	Elizabeth Logan (1786 - 1853)
Child	Ann Logan (1794 - )
Child	William Logan (1776 - 1822)