1758 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR newspaper INDIANS ATTACK BEDFORD Halifax Co VIRGINIA for Sale

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1758 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR newspaper INDIANS ATTACK BEDFORD Halifax Co VIRGINIA:
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1758 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR newspaper INDIANS ATTACK BEDFORD Halifax Co VIRGINIA

1758 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR newspaper with front-page reports announcing that INDIANS ATTACK BEDFORD and Halifax Counties, VIRGINIAburning houses and other buildings while killing and capturing 70 white settlers- inv # 7N-312

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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theLloyd\'s Evening Post & British Chronicle(London) datedJuly 7, 1758, withcompelling French and InidanWar history from the frontier of Virginia, a very dangerous place to be during colonial times.

Even after General Braddock was defeated near modern-day Pittsburg, the English colonists east of the Blue Ridge were safe from attack. It was the settlers living west of the Blue Ridge that were attacked by the hostile Shawnee, Cherokee, and other Native Americans. As Gov. Spotswood had anticipated 50 years earlier, colonists in the valleys of the Shenandoah, James, Roanoke, and New rivers provided a buffer that blocked French and Native American attackers from reaching the Piedmont.

Since the 1720\'s, Virginia policy had encouraged German and Scotch-Irish immigrants as well as English-speaking settlers to occupy the land west of the Blue Ridge:

The buffer settlements of European Protestants that the colonial government established west of the Blue Ridge between 1730 and 1745 were part of a larger effort to check French expansion across the interior of North America, extend English dominion, secure a western periphery destabilized by Indian conflict, and occupy mountain fastnesses otherwise a refuge to runaway slaves.
Presbyterians who had migrated in stages from Scotland into Ireland, and then to America, walked south from Pennsylvania down the \"Great Road\" (now Route 11/I-81). They crossed the Potomac River and built small farms on the borderlands. Major land grants were issued to William Beverly, Benjamin Borden, and James Patton to recruit the Scotch-Irish. Virginia officials ignored the nonconformist religion of the new immigrants, and Presbyterians dominated the vestries of some Anglican parishes west of the Blue Ridge.

Immigrants with German heritage (\"Deutsch\" was modified into \"Pennsylvania Dutch\") moved into the New River Valley in the 1740\'s. The pietist religious practices of the German immigrants led to one community being called Dunkards Bottom (now covered by Claytor Lake), while Hans Meadow later grew into Christiansburg. Other German-speaking immigrants settled on the watershed divide between Toms Creek and Stroubles Creek, in the area known today as Prices Fork in modern Montgomery County.

Virginia landowners eager to sell land west of the Blue Ridge recruited German pietists from Ephrata, though their religion made them reluctant to join the militia

Native Americans did not welcome these new settlements. By the 1730\'s there were almost no Native American towns remaining in the valleys between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. The valleys had become traditional travel routes for Iroquois, Cherokee, and Catawba to raid each other, and were valued hunting territory for the Shawnee as well.

The Iroquois abandoned their claim to those lands in the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, but the Shawnee were not a party to that treaty. In the 1750\'s, they still objected to the intrusion of colonists into territory they still claimed south of the Ohio River. In 1749, soon after settlers moved into the New River Valley, Shawnee seized furs from the home of Adam Harman.

Even before Braddock\'s defeat on July 9, 1755, the Shawnee took advantage of their alliance with the French and raided farms and isolated settlements far south into Virginia.

The Shawnee implemented a reign of terror, and it succeeded initially. The goal was to drive the English, German, and Scotch-Irish eastward, pushing them back from their recent occupation of Native American lands. Hundreds of colonists were killed or captured. Women and children were carried back to Ohio and Kentucky to help repopulate Shawnee communities. Colonial settlements located deep in the borderlands, such the valleys of the Greenbrier River and the South Branch of the Potomac River, were abandoned.

In one famous incident, the Shawnee may have targeted Col. James Patton. He was visiting the New River Valley to examine his substantial land claims. Patton stayed in a cabin at Draper\'s Meadows on Stroubles Creek, near the modern Duck Pond on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg.

On July 8, 1755, one day before Braddock\'s forces near Fort Duquesne were defeated, Patton and several others were killed in a swift attack. During the raid, Philip Barger was decapitated. His head was displayed when the raiders visited another cabin, indicating the raid was designed to create terror on the frontier as well as perhaps demonstrate that top colonial leaders were vulnerable.

Mary Draper Ingles was captured in the \"Draper\'s Meadows Massacre.\" Her escape and extraordinary long walk back home from the Ohio River have been commemorated in various books. An outdoor drama, \"The Long Way Home,\" presented her story on a stage at the Ingles farm from 1971-1999. It was rewritten and revived in 2017 as \"Walk to Freedom - The Mary Draper Ingles Story.\"

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