Source: Cole, Adelaide M., Ph.D.; Sarah Winston Henry Chapter Indiana. MARY DRAPER INDLES: PIONEER HEROINE/ DRAPER descendant: David J. WALKERdescends from George DRAPER's son John DRAPER & Elizabeth ROBINSON.
Mary Draper was the child of George DRAPER & Elenor HARDIN, Irish immigrants. When Mary was between 8 & 10 years old, her family moved from Philadelphia to Pattonsburg, VA on the James river. One day while away from home, George DRAPER never returned, & it was presumed that he was killed by Indians. About 1748, Mrs. DRAPER & her son & daughter & Thomas INGLES & his 3 sons & 3 others made the first settlement west of the Allegheny divide & the first on the New River. This area was named " Draper Meadows ". Early in 1750, Mary DRAPER became the bride of William INGLES, son of Thomas INGLES. To this marriage was born 2 sons: Thomas & George.
On July 7, 1755, a party of Shawnees from beyond the Ohio attackked the Draper Meadows settlement. Bettie DRAPER, wife of John DRAPER was taken prisoner & her infant was killed by an Indian who dashed his brains put against the corner logs of the cabin. Mary INGLES was captured by the laughing & screaming Indians after she failed to fire upon them. Her 2 sons & another settler were also captured. William INGLES & John DRAPER, working in a grain field, managed to escape.
Mary INGLES, in full term pregnancy, was threaten with rape & another threaten her with a knife with the intent of ripping her unborn child from the womb. At the first house on the escape route, an old man's head was cut off & delivered to a neighbor with the explanation that it was an " aquaintance".
On the night of the 3rd day, Mary INGLES gave birth to a daughter. Had she not been able to travel the next morning, the Indians probably would have tomahawked her & the infant. Mary began to memorize the geographical features & the number of days & miles travelled to the Shawnee town at the mouth of the Scioto River. The journey took one month.
At the Shawnee town, the sons of Mary INGLES were taken from her. Thomas, age 4, went with the Indians to Detroit; and George, 2 years old, was taken to an unknown destination. Bettie DRAPER was claimed by the Indians in the Chillicothe area & Mary & her baby daughter Bettie Elenor was left in the Shawnee camp. French traders came into the camp with shirting material. Mary Ingles was a good seamstress. A party of Indians & French traders forced Mary Ingles, a Dutch woman & other prisoners to go along with them on a salt-making expedition.
While gathering wild fruit & nuts, Mary & the Dutch woman began making plans to escape. Mary made the decision to leave behind her daughter. When the women failed to come back to the Indian camp they were thought to be lost or killed by wild beasts. Keeping the Ohio in view, the 2 women stumbled on in exhaustion, weary & worned & bruised. Along the way back they found an abandoned cabin, corn patch, and a horse, which made travelling easier. They were feeble, scatched, and footsore & the weather was turning cold. The Dutch woman became disheartened & discouraged & threatened to kill Mrs. Ingles. Mary managed to stay out of reach. The Dutch woman became crazed from starvation & tried to kill Mrs. Ingles & use her companion for food. Mary managed to escape & later found a canoe & fled across the river. Both continued on opposite sides of the river.
Mary climbed & crawled, hour after hour, resting from time to time. She called out for help & Adam HARMON & his 2 sons who were gathering corn heard her cries. They carried her to their cabin & cared for her needs. Within a few days she returned to Draper's Meadows & then to the fort " Dunkard Bottom". The Dutch woman was found by Adam HARMON & returned to the fort. Mary was reunited with her husband & brother, William & John DRAPER. Mrs. Bettie DRAPER was adopted into the family of an Indian chief who recently had lost a daughter. Her husband negotiated with the chief for her return. Mary Ingles learned that her son George had died not long after taken from his mother. Nothing was ever heard of the infant girl. Her son William was located in a Shawnee family near Detroit. After paying a ransom the boy returned home. Mary Ingles bore 3 daughters & 1 son as she continued her family in the settlement.
We are on a quest to find decendants of the woman who traveled back with Mary Ingles in 1755. >From what we have so far she returned home by way of Winchester, Va. Mary Lewis Ingles Jeffries (a 5th generation decandent of William and Mary Ingles was in the hospital 2 times. Once in 1942 and the other in 1952. She was in the old Jefferson Hospital in Roanoke, VA. While she was there one of those 2 times a woman visited and told her she was a desendant of the woman who walked back with Mary. It did not register with Mary Lewis at the time and the trail was lost. According to the sources that we have available, the woman returned to what is now the Pittsburg area. At that time it was a French fort call Fort DeQuesne. We would like to find them and incorporate the correct name in to our historical drama. We can be contacted by email lwh@bellatlantic.net phone 540/639-0679 Fax 540/731-8306 US Mail Al Shumate The Long Way Home PO Box 711 Radford, VA 24141-0711 Many Thanks Al Shumate - Technical Director Mary Draper Ingles' Journey, THE LONG WAY HOME
From: Al Shumate Subject: Mary Draper Ingles Travel Companion We have just found mone information about the other woman who may have been Mary's travel companion. In Allan W. Eckert's prolog of 'That Dark And Bloody River', he give a name of Hannah Schmidt who was also captured by Shawnee in the same general area. She was in all likely hood taken straight on to the Shawnee Village. We do know that Mary spent a few days at Salt Kettle Springs and helped the Indians make salt. If this was the case, that would have put Hannah in the Shawnee Village when Mary arrived there if the party Hannah was with went straight on to the village. In a letter received from Mr. Eckert, he said that base on his memory of the Draper Papers, Hannah was from "the region of present Sunbury in present Northumberland County, but had relatives at or near the forks of the Ohio (present Pittsburg) and possibly also the Redrocks area (present Brownsville, Pa.)" If anyone has information, the can contact Al Shumate, Technical Director, The Long Way Home, PO Box 711, Radford, VA 24141, Phone 540/639-0679, Fax 540/731-8306 or email lwh@bellatlantic.net Thank You -- Al Shumate
Another good- INGLES Family Story -submitted by SGT. Philip Atkins
Capture and Rescue of the Ingles Family
and Killing of Captain Thomas Maxwell
By Emory L. Hamilton
From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 93-98.
In Tazewell Co., VA, lies Burke's Garden,
one of the most beautiful valleys in all of
Southwest Virginia. The valley is a bowl 10 miles
long by 5 miles wide, snuggled down between
beautiful mountains on all sides, with a narrow
outlet at one end. This was perhaps the earliest site
of a settlement in Tazewell Co., with the Ingles
brothers and son building a cabin there in 1749, (1)
although they did not make a settlement at this
date, only a cabin. The Ingles and Patton families
claimed all of Burke's Garden, and after the death
of Col. James Patton, his grandson James
Thompson seems to have taken over and most of
the land eventually came into possession of James
Thompson and Dr. Thomas Walker. In 1760 it was
known as "Ingles Craborchard." (2)
Kegley, in his "Virginia Frontier," (2),
says:
Thomas, John and William Ingles of
Ingles Mill Creek of the North Fork Roanoke,
were among the most interesting of the early
settlers. Thomas and John were brothers, William
and Matthew, (3) sons of Thomas. Thomas Ingles
a grandson of William says, "My great
grandfather, Thomas Ingles, was a merchant of
Dublin, Ireland, who, upon suspicion of
entertaining liberal principles and engaging in a
rebellion him and his two sons were sent as
convicts to Wales from whence they made their
escape to the United States, my grandfather
William Ingles being one of the number, they
came first to Pennsylvania and from there to this
country. (Letter of Thomas Ingles of Lovely
Mount, Montgomery Co., 1851). They were here
as early as 1746 and were well established when
Dr. (Thomas) Walker visited them in 1750.
Thomas and his brother John entered land on the
waters of New River and Clinch and William as
heir to both, came into possession of it. John was
killed at Vause's Fort and his wife, Mary, was
carried into captivity. When this Mary Ingles
returned she married John Miller and went to
Carolina. William Ingles came to the Roanoke
with his father and Uncle John before 1746.
William in 1750 married Mary Draper, but he
continued to live on the Roanoke until after 1753,
when he purchased land at Draper's Meadows
from Col. Patton. He was on the waters of New
River in 1754 and 1755.
A neighbor of Ingles, on the Roanoke
River, James Burke sold his property there in
1753 and moved to Burkes Garden and lived there
until the Indians saw fit to run him out. From
Burkes Garden James Burke migrated to
Cumberland Co., NC, and in 1760 he and his wife
Lucretia, conveyed the remainder of the original
Burke land on the Roanoke to Dr. Walker. This is
the reason for calling the place Burke's Garden
as James Burke seems to have been the first to
actually make a settlement in the valley.
At the Draper's Meadows massacre of
July
30, 1755, the wife of William Ingles, Mary Draper
Ingles, and her small son Thomas, then four years
old, were taken captive by the Indians. Mrs. Ingles
made her escape, and the details of which has
become the classic Indian story of Southwest
Virginia. Her son, Thomas, was held captive until
ransomed by his father in 1768. He had spent
thirteen years with the Indians, had grown to young
manhood, spoke their language fluently, and had
adopted Indian ways altogether. It is said that upon
return he was very unhappy away from his Indian
friends, and had much difficulty in readopting to
civilized life. He was finally sent to Albemarle Co.
By his father and while there married.
William Ingles continued to live on in the
area until his death in 1782, leaving at least five
children (4), who were: Susannah who married
Abraham Trigg; Rhoda who married Byrd Smith;
Mary who married John Gills, and Thomas and
John Ingles. (5)
Thomas Ingles eventually settled in
Burke's Garden on the land he had inherited from
his father. He was Commissary for the troops on
the Point Pleasant expedition and his feelings were
very strong for the Indians.
On the 5th of April, 1782, the Shawnee,
under the leadership of Black Wolf made a raid
upon Burkes Garden and captured the family of
Thomas Ingles.
Pendleton, History of Tazewell County,
(6) gives the following:
The Indians had concealed themselves
until Ingles went out on his farm to work, and then
surrounded his home; and made his wife, their
three children and a Negro man and woman
prisoner. After taking as much booty as they could
carry the Indians started with their prisoners back
to Ohio. The cries of the captives attracted the
attention of Thomas Ingles and his Negro man
while they were plowing in a field.
Seeing the number of Indians, Ingles knew
he could do nothing for his family. He and the
Negro man, unhitched the horses from the plow
and started to the nearest settlement for
assistance. Knowing the Indians would make their
way back to the head of the Clinch, Ingles crossed
the mountains to the nearest settlement on the
North Fork of the Holston..
It happened to be Muster Day for the
Washington Co. militia and the settlers on the
North Fork of the Holston River had assembled,
and were being drilled by Captain Thomas
Maxwell, who had formerly lived at the head of
Bluestone, in Tazewell Co. Maxwell with a party
of fifteen or twenty volunteers, went with Ingle's to
Burke's Garden to pursue the Indians. (7)
Joseph Hicks (Hix) (8), a single man and
his Negro slave were the only other people who
lived in Burke's Garden besides the Thomas
Ingles family. The day the Indians attacked the
Ingles family Hicks and his Negro man were on
their way to the home of Ingles and saw the
Indians with their captives. He and the Negro man
immediately started across Brushy Mountain for
help in Bland County. There they secured six or
seven men and arrived back in Burke's Garden
about the same time Maxwell and his party
arrived. The two parties united under Maxwell
and went in pursuit of the Indians.
On the fifth day after the capture the
advance scouts discovered the Indians, who were
camped for the night in a gap of Tug Mountain. It
was agreed that Maxwell should take half of the
men, and during the night, get in front of the
Indians, and Thomas Ingles should remain with
the other half in the rear of the Indians, and at
daybreak a simultaneous attack should take place.
The night was very dark and the ground rough
and brushy. Consequently the party with Maxwell
lost their way and did not reach the front by
daylight.
Maxwell having failed to get to his
appointed place on time, and the Indians
beginning to rouse from their slumbers, Ingles
determined to make an attack with his men. Dr.
Thomas Hale, who was a great-grandson of
William and Mary Ingles and who collected his
information from the records of the Ingles family
thus relates what transpired after the attack was
made: 'So soon as a shot was fired, some of the
Indians began to tomahawk the prisoners, while
others fought and fled. Thomas Ingles rushed in
and seized his wife just as she received a terrible
blow on the head with a tomahawk. She fell
covering the infant of a few months old, which she
held in her arms. The Indians had no time to
devote to it. They tomahawked his little five year
old daughter, named Mary, and his three year old
son, named William. His Negro servants, a man
and woman, captured with his family, escaped
without injury.
Dr. Thomas Hale, in his "Trans Alleghany
Pioneers," says that "shortly after this occurrence
that Thomas Ingles, his wife, and infant daughter,
moved to Tennessee and settled in succession on
the Watauga River at Mossy Creek, and at Fort
Knox, now Knoxville. There his daughter, Rhoda,
who escaped death, grew up and married Patrick
Campbell. Subsequent to the marriage of his
daughter, Thomas Ingles moved to Mississippi,
where he lived until he died.
After tomahawking the Ingles children in
making their escape the Indians ran close to
Captain Maxwell and his party, and, firing on
them, killed Captain Maxwell, (9) who was
conspicious from wearing a white hunting shirt.
The whites remained on the ground until
late in the evening burying Captain Maxwell, who
was killed outright, and Thomas Ingle's little son,
who died from his wounds during the day. Mrs.
Ingles and the little girl were still alive, although
badly wounded. Four days after the party arrived
at William Wynn's Fort at Locust Hill.
On April 26, 1782, Col. William Preston, wrote
Governor Harrison (10), a letter wherein he states::
Enclosing a letter to himself from Col.
Walter Crockett, dated April 15, 1782, giving
account of the killing of Captain Moffet's sons,
and the whole family of Captain Ingles in Burke's
Garden, - also of his having ordered Col. Cloyd
to call out the militia to assemble at "David
Doack's Mill", to protect the settlements, as the
people talk of "breaking up" unless help is
afforded them. He calls also for provisions as they
cannot be supplied on Clinch. Col. Preston adds,
"I wrote to your Excellency the 10th instant
informing you of the damages the savages had
done in Montgomery. I last night received the
enclosed letter from Colonel Crockett. It appears
that Captain ingles family were not burned in the
house, as he imagined, but were taken prisoners.
He raised a party of men and pursued the enemy;
after some days march he overtook them and
recovered his wife and one child, both
tomahawked, but perhaps not mortally, and his
slaves. One of his children they murdered, killed
an officer of the party, and made their escape. The
enemy attacked some other families, but were
repulsed though, I believe without loss. They
killed a man on Bluestone, and I am told a woman
at Culbertson's Bottom on New River. Their signs
have been seen in various parts of the country,
which has given the greatest alarm to the
inhabitants; and what is extraordinary that five
houses they attacked, that four belonged to
officers, and some of them a considerable distance
within the frontier settlements, which induces me
to believe they are conducted by Tories. I am at a
loss what measures to fall upon for the defense of
the distressed inhabitants.
(1) Statement of Matthias Harman in 1809,
Maxwell vs Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended,
O. S. 129; N. S. 45. Bill 1807.
(2) Kegley, Virginia Frontier, pages 194-195.
(3) Matthew was a seaman and died unmarried at
sea. Statement of Samuel Wilson (born 23
February 1733) Augusta Court Causes Ended,
Thompson vs. Ingles, O. S. 46; N. S. 16. Wilson
married Rebecca, daughter of James Burke.
(4) Statement William Wynn, Augusta Court
Causes Ended, Wynn vs Inglish's heirs, O. S. 48;
N. S. 16.
(5) Perhaps the same John English who settled in
1772 on Sugar Hill in Wise Co., near St. Paul,
VA, and whose family was murdered there in 1787
by Indians. The name is variantly spelled, Ingles,
Inglis, Inglish and English. See story of John
English's family in this volume.
(6) Pendleton, History of Tazewell Co., VA, page
443.
(7) David E. Johnson, History of Middle New
River Settlements, page 146, says that Henry
Harman was of this party also.
(8) Joseph Hix was still in Tazewell Co., in 1809,
when he made a deposition in the case, Maxwell vs
Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended, O. S. 129;
N. S. 45. Bill Filed 1807.
(9) Killed on Tug River at a place still called
Maxwell's Gap.
(10) Calendar Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page
139.
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John Ingles Home Attacked
Cox and Two Hunters Killed
By Emory L. Hamilton
From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 117-120.
On January 29, 1783, Col. Arthur
Campbell, writing to the Governor of Virginia, (1)
stated:
On Christmas day last (1782) the Indians
attacked the house of John Ingles on Clinch, in
this county, scalped and otherwise grieviously
wounded a young man of the name of Fox,
overtaken in ye field. The second day afterwards,
as the enemy was making off towards the head of
Sandy River, (they) came on three (3) hunters, two
of whom they killed.
This attack at so uncommon a season, and
not withstanding General Clark's success, has
disheartened the whole settlement of Clinch
greatly - in so much that they have come to a
resolution to abandon the river early in the
spring, if some apparently effectual measures are
not set on foot for their protection. A fort erect on
Sandy River, west of the Laurel Ridge seems to me
the only probable measure...
Colonel Campbell, in the above letter
relating to the attack on the home of John English,
(2) who in the year 1772, had settled on Sugar Hill
overlooking the town of St. Paul, in now Wise
County, Virginia, does not say what took place
when the home was attacked. We must assume that
no harm was suffered by the English family at this
time. Campbell states that a young man named
Cox, but gives no first name, was "overtaken in ye
field" and slain. He does not say whether the field
was at the English home, or at some more distant
place. At that date the only record we have of a
Cox family was those living in the vicinity of
Blackmore's Fort in now Scott County. It may be
that Cox was killed in this vicinity.
(1) Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 424.
(2) This name is variantly spelled Ingles, Inglish,
and English in the early records. John possibly may
have been a brother of Captain Thomas Ingles
whose family were captured in Burkes Garden in
1782. Thomas had a brother John.
Campbell further states that the second day
afterwards, as the enemy was making off toward
the head of Sandy River, they came across three
hunters, two of whom they killed. In all probability
these three hunters were James Green, and two
whose names are doubtful, although some earlier
historians has given their names as Charles Kilgore
(error: Robert Kilgore, his brother), and a man
named McKinney. There is, however, a
discrepancy in dates given by Campbell and the
actual date that James Green was killed. Campbell
seems to "lump" all three events under the attack
on Christmas day, and two days later, but in all
probability it was the same band of Indians who
were on the raiding party, and committed the acts
to which he refers, commencing on the 25th of
December, and committing the last act on the 31st,
with the slaying of Cox sometime between.
E. M. Addington, History of Scott County,
page 303, says:
In march, 1783 (incorrect date) Charles
Kilgore (error: Robert Kilgore, his brother),
James Green, and a man by the name of
McKinney, left Ft. Blackmore and went to the
Pound River in Wise County to hunt, and while
there were surprised by the Indians, and Charles
(Robert) and James Green were killed. McKinney
made his escape and returned to the fort. A
searching party led by McKinney found the bodies
of Charles Kilgore (Robert Kilgore) and James
Green, and buried them in the hollow of a large
chestnut tree on the north bank of Pound Rive,r a
short distance above the mouth of Indian Creek.
Mr. Addington is definitely wrong on the
date that James Green was killed, but as to whether
Charles Kilgore was killed or not there are facts
that seem to deny it and others that seem to bear it
out, as will be shown.
The date of the killing of James Green is
proven by Russell Co., VA, Court Order Book 3,
page 266, dated the 27th of December, 1803, which
entry reads: "Ordered that it be certified to the
Registrar of the Land Office that it is proven to this
court that James Green is the son and heir at law of
James Green, who was killed by the savages on the
31st of December, 1782, and that the said James
Green, the younger was born on the 12th of
February, 1783."
James Green who was slain was a son of
Lewis Green, and had settled on Stony Creek near
Blackmore's Fort. He had married Jane, the
daughter of Patrick and Ann Porter of Porter's
Fort, who was born September 9, 1761. James
Green, Jr., born posthumously, was the only child
of James and Jane Porter Green. James Green, Jr.,
married Dulcena, a daughter of Samuel and Jaelia
Duncan Stallard. Sometime after the slaying of
James Green, his widow married Robert Kilgore,
and they built the old Kilgore fort house still
standing in Scott Co., VA on Copper Creek, west
of Nickelsville. Here they lived out the balance of
their lives, and Robert, born June 30, 1765, dying
on march 29, 1854, and his wife Jane, on
September 25, 1842.
Charles Kilgore had emigrated from
Orange Co., NC, and settled on the east side of
Falling Creek, opposite Porter's Fort, on a tract of
286 acres of land in the year 1773, with his wife,
Winnie Clayton (error: Winnie was the wife of his
brother, Robert Kilgore) and his family. He served
and was wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
Both James Green and Charles Kilgore appear in
the 1782 tithable lists of Washington Co., VA, but
in 1783, only his wife Winnie appears, as does
Jane Green, the wife of James. (Error: Charles
Kilgore does appear on the 1783 Washington Co.,
VA Tithable list). This would seem to bear out the
fact that both James Green and Charles Kilgore
were dead in 1783.
Some aver that Charles Kilgore sold his
land in Scott Co. and removed to Greene Co., TN,
where he died. There is also evidence to bear out
this assertion, that is, if the two Charles Kilgores
were one and the same. Katherine Keagh White, in
her book, King's Mountain Men, says of this
Charles that he was a Private under Campbell at
King's Mountain and was wounded. He was placed
on the pension rolls of Greene Co. in 1809, and in
1820 he is listed as an invalid with an annual
allowance of $48 a year.
Charles Kilgore had a son, Charles
Kilgore, Jr., who was born in Orange Co., NC,
January 4, 1764. Charles Kilgore, Jr., filed a
Revolutionary pension claim in Davies Co.,
Indiana, in 1833, in which he tells of his serving on
the Southwestern Virginia frontier as an Indian spy
and guarding the frontier forts. No place in this
pension statement does he mention being at the
battle of King's Mountain, but definitely lists all
his services as on the frontier. This Charles Kilgore
says that in 1787 he moved to Greene Co., TN,
where he lived for six or seven years. If, as he says,
he lived in Greene Co., six or seven years, then he
could not have been the Charles who was
pensioned in 1809. From Greene Co. he says he
moved to Pendleton Co., SC, where he lived a few
years, and then back t Washington Co., VA, thence
to Wayne Co., KY, where he lived until 1815. This
latter date would also eliminate him as the Charles
who was allowed a pension in Greene Co., TN, in
1820. From Wayne Co., KY he moved to
Lawrence, then on to Davies Counties in Indiana,
where he died June 1, 1857. This Charles Kilgore
was married to Avarilla Simpson, who was born
February 28, 1776. She says in her application for
a pension as his widow that they were married near
a stream called "Cherokee River" in the state of
Virginia. This probably means that they were
married in Tennessee, which was at that time a
territory of Virginia, and the "Cherokee" was
another name for the Tennessee River.
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The Sugar Hill Massacre
By Emory L. Hamilton
From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 156-157.
John English settled on what is now known
as "Sugar Hill" overlooking the town of St. Paul,
VA, in the year 1772, the first known person to
make a home in the present bounds of Wise Co.,
VA.
English's home was attacked by the
Indians on Christmas day 1782, but apparently
none of the family were killed. Outside of this event
he seems to have lived a peaceable life until
tragedy struck him some fifteen years after he had
established his home on the North side of Clinch
River. In his Revolutionary War pension claim
filed in Floyd Co., KY, James Fraley says that the
Indians killed Molly (Mary) English, and her two
little boys, which he does not name. His statement
is borne out by a letter written by Alexander
Barnett, County Lieutenant of Russell, to Governor
Edmund Randolph, on March 26, 1787, (1) in
which he tells the Governor: That on the 8th day of
the present month (March), the Indians made an
attempt on Cassells Woods, on Clinch, and killed
a woman and two children, and made their escape
in such a manner that they could not follow with
any certainty.
Again on May 19, 1787, (2) Barnett wrote
to the Governor saying:
No invasion of the savages since that of
the 8th of March last, an account of which has
been given. The last information is that John
Inglishe's family, killed in Cassells Woods, on
Clinch, in March last were scalped, and that their
scalps were carried into one of the towns on
Highwascy (Hiwassee).
On the 17th of March 1787, (3) Col.
Arthur Campbell writing to the Governor mentions
this same incident, but gives the date as 9th of
March. He says:
On the 9th instant the Indians killed three
(3) persons in a settlement called Cassell's
Woods, near Clinch River. The enemy appeared to
be few in number and went off in great haste,
without attempting to carry off horses or other
kinds of booty.
Very little is known of the personal life or
connections of John English. The name, in early
records, is variantly spelled English, Inglish, Inglis
and Ingles. It is probable that this John English or
Ingles may have been a brother of Capt. Thomas
Ingles whose family were taken out of Burke's
Garden in 1782, since this Thomas had a brother
John.
John English, himself was dead prior to
August 22, 1797, the date of probation of his will
in Russell Co., VA. He had a daughter, Mary, who
had married Jessee Fraley. Mary English Fraley
was dead circa 1794, (4) and her husband, Jessee
Fraley died in June, 1801 (5) They left at least two
children, James and Jessee Fraley, Jr., who were
"bound out" to their Uncle James Fraley, in
October, 1802. (6)
(1) Virginia State Papers, Vol. IV, page 262.
(2) Ibid, page 288
(3) Ibid, page 257
(4) Will Book 2, page 15, Russell Co., VA
(5) Court Order Book 3, page 148, Russell Co.,
VA
(6) Court Order Book 3, page 230, Russell Co.,
VA
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