Battle of Point Pleasant

Captivity and Escape of Mary Inglis (Ingles) – Indian Captivities

Leave a Comment / Native American, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia / 6 minutes of reading

The captivity of Mary Draper Inglis (Ingles) is a third person account of her captivity and eventual escape. Mary was captured by Shawnee Indians along with her two sons, and sister-in-law from Draper’s Meadow in 1755. She eventually made her escape, along with another dutch woman, a few months later. This is her story.

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Dunmore’s War Rosters

1 Comment / Military, Virginia / / 3 minutes of reading

The “Dunmore’s War Rosters” is the chief and by far the most reliable source from which to obtain rosters of the companies engaged in the battle of Point Pleasant, and we print there-from all of those which participated in that struggle. In addition to these, this work contains rolls or lists of men engaged in defending the frontier in 1774.

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