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From: Virginia Curulla <>
Subject: FW: Mary Ingles makes daring escape from Shawnee raiding party(Ulster-Scots Society)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:49:26 -0700
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Some Scots-Irish history if anyone is interested.
Virginia Latta Curulla
Branch 22
Seattle WA
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From: Paul Smallwood <>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Mary Ingles makes daring escape from Shawnee raiding party
(Ulster-Scots Society)
Hello friends and members of the Ulster Scots Societ of America,
In case you ever had the notion that the women of the American frontier
weren't
every bit as couragous, daring and intrepid as the men, please read the
story
of young Mary Draper Ingles and you will be quickly dispelled of that
notion. A first generation Scots-Irish American, Mary Draper Ingles'
parents were born in County Donegal, Ireland. Captured by a Shawnee war
party making raids on settlers in Virginia, she was led hundreds of miles
from her home. Escape seemed impossible but Mary Draper Ingles was
determined to see her home again. Inspite of certain death should she be
caught trying to
escape, Mary made the decision to make good her escape plan. The details
of her journey -- some 800 miles on foot in rough wilderness and taking over
six weeks in 1755 reads like a thriller fiction tale (see link to full story
below). She like so many others of the hardy
Ulster-Scots stock, made her own personal contribution to carving out a new
nation from the
vast expanse of an entire continent. As always, thank you for your support
of the Society and please continue telling others about us and encourage
them to join! Aye,
Paul Smallwood, President, Ulster-Scots Society of America
www.ulsterscotssociety.com <http://www.ulsterscotssociety.com/>;
The Mary Draper Ingles Escape (based on article published in the Blue Ridge
Country.com web page):
Draper's Meadows and Ingles Ferry were two early settlements in Kanawha
county, Virginia, settled by the Draper and the Ingles families. The
settlements were on what is now New River. In 1744, according to tradition,
Thomas Ingles and his eldest son, William, then a youth, made an excursion
to the wilds of southwest Virginia from Pennsylvania, penetrating the
wilderness as far as New River. Of the details of this expedition no record
has been preserved. On this trip they probably made the acquaintance of
Colonel James Patton who was a native of County Londonderry, Ireland, and
held a grant for 120,- 000 acres of land west of the Blue Ridge, and in the
valley of Virginia. George Draper and his young wife, whose maiden name had
been Elenor Hardin, came from County Donegal, Ireland, in l729,and settled
at the mouth of the Schuylkill river, within the present limits of the city
of Philadelphia. Here two children were born to them, John In 1730 and Mary
in 1732. Between 1740 and 1744, they, with their two children, came to
Virginia, and located at Colonel Patton's settlement (Pattonsburg), on the
James river. While the Drapers lived at Pattonsburg, George Draper started
out on a game-hunting and land- seeking expedition, westward. He never
returned, and was never again heard of by his family. It was supposed that
he was killed by the Indians. At about this time, (1748), Thomas Ingles and
his three sons, Mrs. Draper her son and daughter, Adam Harmon, Henry Lenard,
and James Burke left for the west and made the first settlement west of the
Allegheny Great Divide. The name used for this settlement was Draper's
Meadows. William Ingles, son of Thomas, had married Mary Draper in the
first white wedding east of the Alleghenies.
The full story of Mary Draper Ingles:
http://www.blueridgecountry.com/ingles/ingles.html
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