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Inglis, Mary 1729-1813

Pioneer; born in 1729. She, with her two children, was captured by the Shawnee Indians, who had made a successful attack upon the small settlement. The Indians carried their captives down the Kanawha River to the Scioto. She was thus the first white woman in Kentucky. After a short captivity she made her escape in company with another white woman, and after a journey of nearly 400 miles in the wilderness succeeded in reaching a settlement on the Kanawha. She died in 1813.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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