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From: "Joseph E. Lake" <>
Subject: Re: [INDIAN-CAPTIVES-L] Mary Draper Ingles 1775 Montgomery Co.,Virginia - Play
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:42:43 -0400
Hi Annie Monrad
If you have the URL for the account of the escape in the Pennsylvania Gazette, would you please
post it. Thanks vm.
Annie Monrad wrote:
> I recently ran across an account of Mary Drapers escape from captivity in
> the Pennsylvania Gazette which was pulbished in Philadelphia during the 18th
> century. Annie
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> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 12:09 PM
> Subject: [INDIAN-CAPTIVES-L] Mary Draper Ingles 1775 Montgomery
> Co.,Virginia - Play
>
> >This is from magazine Blue Ridge Outdoors July 1999
> >"In July 1775 frontierswoman Mary Draper Ingles was captured from her home
> in
> >Radford during a Shawnee raid.....She covered 850 miles alone and on foot
> to
> >return home.... A play by Earl Hobson Smith documents her amazing story.
> It
> >has shown every summer since 1971 at the Ingles Homestead Amphitheater in
> >Radford (540-639-0679) Performances run Thurs through Sunday at 8:30pm."
> >~Paula~
> >
> >
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> >When you are against that brick wall, remember even the walls of Jericho
> came tumbling down!
> >
> >
>
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