Journey of Mary Ingles



Locations
Participants

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1755/00/00 Captives are brought to Sonhioto Lower Shawneetown Archeological District, South Portsmouth
1755/00/00 Tommy and George Ingles are sold away
1755/00/00 Mary Ingles crosses the New River (Hinton, WV) to escape the hostile old Dutch woman
1755/00/00 Mary Ingles is brought to Big Bone Lick, 450 mi from Drakes Meadow Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky
1755/00/00 Captives are brought to Sonhioto Lower Shawneetown Archeological District, Kirkville
1755/00/00 George Ingles dies
1755/07/30 Shawnee warriors raid Drapers Meadow, killing 5 and kidnaping 5 Solitude, Blacksburg
1755/07/30 Shawnee warriors scalp and kill Eleoner Draper Solitude, Blacksburg
1755/08/00 Captives are brought to Kanawha Valley
1755/10/00 Mary Ingles and fellow captive, the old Dutch woman, begin their escape via the Ohio River
1755/10/00 Mary Ingles and the Dutch woman walk through the nearly 50 mile long New River Gorge New River Gorge National River, West Virginia
1755/10/00 Mary Ingles and the Dutch woman reach Kanawha Falls
1755/11/00 Adam Harman finds Mary Ingles near present-day Eggleston, VA, ending her escape
1755/11/00 Hunters find the Dutch woman, ending her escape
1755/11/00 Mary Ingles reunites with William Ingles at a fort (lost) in Dunkards Bottom. Dunkard's Bottom site, Claytor Lake State Park, VA
1761/00/00 Shawnee release Betty Draper
1768/00/00 William Ingles sends Thomas Ingles to Dr Thomas Walker at Castle Hill to be taught civilized ways Castle Hill, Keswick
1768/00/00 William Ingles ransoms son Thomas Ingles from Shawnee tribe
1775/07/30 William Preston leaves early in the morning, missing the Drapers Meadow massacre. Solitude, Blacksburg

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