Wow, Sandy, that is a wonderful synopsis of places to look to do further research on the subject of Mary Draper Ingles! Wish I was that organized to send out information on the Indian incident that I do some research on (Cornstalk 1763 Greenbrier County (nowWV) and Kerr's Creek in Va....) Thanks for sharing all of that good information. I am a member of the Rootsweb Indian Captives mail list : INDIAN-CAPTIVES-L@rootsweb.com I think that your letter would be very welcome on that mail list. It is not a very active list, but by chance we have been chatting about two females with the last name Castle on Col Bouquet's list of captives released in 1764: >In the fall of 1764 Col Henry Bouquet of Fort Pitt Pa., returned many >> Indian captives to their homes. Among them was an Elizabeth Castle of >> Augusta Co. Va. > None of us can trace these females to a particular Indian incident from our own research. I am descended from the Castle family that was in Southwest Va in the 1700's and have no family stories of a capture/massacre event in the tales told of my Castle family. Yet I suspect that these girls may have been in the same area described below when captured. But the released prisoners were from many areas of the western frontier of the era---yet I feel as if they were RETURNED to Augusta County which may have included the Blacksburg area (I am unclear where the line between Augusta and Botetourt would have been in 1764). I guess that my questions are two: First does anyone on this list recognize the Castle surname related to a Indian event? Second, Sandy, would you be interested in joining the Indian Captives mail list and posting your letter? Or if not, would you mind if I posted the letter giving you credit for having sent it originally on another mail list? marsha in WV TracingMyRoots wrote: >The book "Follow the River" by James Alexander Thom is a story based on the >experiences of Mary Draper Ingles who, in 1755, was captured in Montgomery >Co, VA, by the Shawnee Indians, & taken to Ohio. She escaped and walked all >the way back home, following the Ohio River, then the New River. Legend is >that the 800 mile trek took ...... > >As you can probably tell, I'm fascinated by this story! :-) >Sandy in Montgomery Co, Va > > >> <> >

I live within 3 miles of Paint Creek or in the book Painted Creek, part of the trail that they took to the salt springs at Malden, W.Va. about 10 miles from me, where they camped, hunted and took back salt to the Shawnee camp in Ohio. I was born in Pulaski, Va, near Dublin. It's my understanding that Mary Draper Ingles was living in Draper Valley on the New River in now Pulaski County, when she was captured. I have a photo of her family's ferry landing taken where I wrote in the early 1900's. Ingles Ferry. On her way back home with the Dutch woman, she made it to Mr. Harman's farm in Eggleston. I have seen the field before. I'm in Eggleston at least once a year. have relatives that live there. I love that part of the New River, very calm and deep with cliffs in some places. Curtis ----- Original Message ----- From: "marsha moses" <mosesm@earthlink.net> To: <VAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:58 AM Subject: [VAMONTGO] Indian captive stories > Wow, Sandy, that is a wonderful synopsis of places to look to do further > research on the subject of Mary Draper Ingles! Wish I was that > organized to send out information on the Indian incident that I do some > research on (Cornstalk 1763 Greenbrier County (nowWV) and Kerr's Creek > in Va....) Thanks for sharing all of that good information. I am a > member of the Rootsweb Indian Captives mail list : > > INDIAN-CAPTIVES-L@rootsweb.com > > I think that your letter would be very welcome on that mail list. It is > not a very active list, but by chance we have been chatting about two > females with the last name Castle on Col Bouquet's list of captives > released in 1764: > > >In the fall of 1764 Col Henry Bouquet of Fort Pitt Pa., returned many > >> Indian captives to their homes. Among them was an Elizabeth Castle of > >> Augusta Co. Va. > > > None of us can trace these females to a particular Indian incident from > our own research. I am descended from the Castle family that was in > Southwest Va in the 1700's and have no family stories of a > capture/massacre event in the tales told of my Castle family. Yet I > suspect that these girls may have been in the same area described below > when captured. But the released prisoners were from many areas of the > western frontier of the era---yet I feel as if they were RETURNED to > Augusta County which may have included the Blacksburg area (I am unclear > where the line between Augusta and Botetourt would have been in 1764). > > I guess that my questions are two: First does anyone on this list > recognize the Castle surname related to a Indian event? > > Second, Sandy, would you be interested in joining the Indian Captives > mail list and posting your letter? Or if not, would you mind if I > posted the letter giving you credit for having sent it originally on > another mail list? marsha in WV > > TracingMyRoots wrote: > > >The book "Follow the River" by James Alexander Thom is a story based on the > >experiences of Mary Draper Ingles who, in 1755, was captured in Montgomery > >Co, VA, by the Shawnee Indians, & taken to Ohio. She escaped and walked all > >the way back home, following the Ohio River, then the New River. Legend is > >that the 800 mile trek took ...... > > > >As you can probably tell, I'm fascinated by this story! :-) > >Sandy in Montgomery Co, Va > > > > > >> <> > > > > > ==== VAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Be sure and visit the Montgomery County VAGenWeb Page > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vamontgo/ >