Search -
Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles
Shawnee Captive The Story of Mary Draper Ingles Author:Mary R. Furbe The true story of heroic Mary Draper Ingles. I 1745, mary moved with her parents to Draper's Meadow in the Shenandoah Valley. Here they hoped to finaly have rich farmland the the freedom to worship freely. In 750, at the age of seventeen, Mary married Will Ingles - the first wedding of two white settlers in the region. As more Europeans move... more »d into the area, tension between the settlers and the native Americans increased. One day while the men were at harvest, a band of Shawnee raided and Mary, 3 months pregnant, was captured. The captives were marched 800 miles over mountains to a Shawnee Village on the Ohio River. Mary escaped and this is the story of her harrowing and courageous trip back home.« less