Ingels, Ingles & English
We are using this page to archive links between the Ingels, Ingles & English family surnames. I'm also compiling data about Thomas Ingles and his relatives with the hope of finding the link to the English line that migrated into the southern states.
Documents linked to Thomas Ingles & his family in Virginia show the name Ingles & English used interchangeably in the mid to late 1700's onward. Please Contact Us if you have any information, theories or corrections. I'll gladly post it here and give full credit.
Documents linked to Thomas Ingles & his family in Virginia show the name Ingles & English used interchangeably in the mid to late 1700's onward. Please Contact Us if you have any information, theories or corrections. I'll gladly post it here and give full credit.
Ingels & English DNA
My Family Tree DNA myFTDNA results show 8 of our top 9 DNA matches with the last name English. Also, our top 37 marker (Charles Walter Wood) shows Elijah McClanahan Ingles as a DNA match at over a 99% probability. Elijah McClanahan Ingles is the great grandson of William Ingles and Mary Draper (Ingles).
Ingels & Ingles/Draper links
Obituary for Jasper Clayton Ingels
Ingels, Jasper Clayton
Judge Jasper Clayton Ingels, was born in Harrison Twp., Gallia County, March 21, 1855. He is the son of Jesse and Mary Waddell Ingels. His father came from Pennsylvania in Meigs and thence to Gallia County to Meigs county thence to Gallia County. He was a farmer and a Methodist preacher-a circuit rider. His mother was a daughter of Wm. Waddell a former sheriff of this county. Judge Ingels’ grandfather was Thomas Ingels, who with his brothers Matthew and William, were banished from England about 1777 for political reasons. They all came to Philadelphia, William going later to Kentucky and Matthew to Virginia.*
Transcribed from the Gallipolis Tribune
2 July 1909
*My note: The timeline is off here in my opinion, but the names seem to indicate Thomas Ingles and his brothers or sons.
Ingels, Jasper Clayton
Judge Jasper Clayton Ingels, was born in Harrison Twp., Gallia County, March 21, 1855. He is the son of Jesse and Mary Waddell Ingels. His father came from Pennsylvania in Meigs and thence to Gallia County to Meigs county thence to Gallia County. He was a farmer and a Methodist preacher-a circuit rider. His mother was a daughter of Wm. Waddell a former sheriff of this county. Judge Ingels’ grandfather was Thomas Ingels, who with his brothers Matthew and William, were banished from England about 1777 for political reasons. They all came to Philadelphia, William going later to Kentucky and Matthew to Virginia.*
Transcribed from the Gallipolis Tribune
2 July 1909
*My note: The timeline is off here in my opinion, but the names seem to indicate Thomas Ingles and his brothers or sons.
Biography of Burton Theodore Ingels
WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1925 - Volume IV, page 370
BURTON T. INGELS. One of the basic industries of West Virginia is lumbering, the magnificent forest regions of this great state furnishing an almost unlimited supply of the raw material for countless enterprises connected with the supplying of the immense demand for lumber. One of the concerns long connected with meeting this demand is the Graham Lumber Company of Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, of which one of the prime factors is Burton T. Ingels, its secretary and treasurer. Mr. Burton was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19, 1886, a son of Jasper C. and Emma (Gilbert) Ingels, both of whom are living and residing at Gallipolis, where the father is serving as president of the First National Bank. He is an active Republican, and has held the offices of probate judge, county treasurer and county recorder of Media County. Seven children were born to the parents, namely: Stella C., who married C.H. Booton; Jesse, who died in 1918; Dolly, who married W.P. Kling; Clyde C., who is cashier of his father's bank; Burton T., whose name heads this review; Chauncey C., who died in 1924; and Marie, who married M.W. Cornwell. Graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Burton T. Ingels was sent to Herndon, West Virginia, as sales manager for the Guyan Lumber Company. While there he became active in politics as a Republican, and was a justice of the peace from 1910 to 1912, a member of the school board from 1912 to 1916, and in the latter year he was elected president of the board and served in that capacity until 1926. In the latter year he came to Bluefield, bought into the Graham Lumber company, and became its secretary and treasurer. On September 30, 1911, Mr. Ingels married Miss Belva Lillian Price, born at Huntington, West Virginia, July 23, 1892, a daughter of Peter and Marie (Griffith) Price, of Herndon, West Virginia, where for years Mr. Price has been master mechanic for the Guyan Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Price have had the following children born to their marriage: Ellen, who married J.A. Hammersley; Chilton; Mrs. Ingels; Clyde; and Ilma, who married W.A. Finney, of Mullens. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have no children. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, with membership at Rock, West Virginia, and he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Bluefield and the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Herndon. A Methodist in religious faith, he belongs to the Bluefield Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A very interesting bit of pioneer history relative to Ohio centers about Mary Ingels, an ancestor of Mr. Ingels. She was captured by the Indians and carried from Pennsylvania over the Alleghany Mountains into Ohio, where she soon thereafter gave birth to what is claimed was the first white child born west of these mountains. She subsequently escaped from her captors, and, with her baby, managed to get back to her husband and family. It is difficult in these days, not so far off as history regards it, to realize the conditions under which the pioneers of any frontier struggled, especially when they had to also contend with the red foes.
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company, 1925 - Volume IV, page 370
BURTON T. INGELS. One of the basic industries of West Virginia is lumbering, the magnificent forest regions of this great state furnishing an almost unlimited supply of the raw material for countless enterprises connected with the supplying of the immense demand for lumber. One of the concerns long connected with meeting this demand is the Graham Lumber Company of Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, of which one of the prime factors is Burton T. Ingels, its secretary and treasurer. Mr. Burton was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19, 1886, a son of Jasper C. and Emma (Gilbert) Ingels, both of whom are living and residing at Gallipolis, where the father is serving as president of the First National Bank. He is an active Republican, and has held the offices of probate judge, county treasurer and county recorder of Media County. Seven children were born to the parents, namely: Stella C., who married C.H. Booton; Jesse, who died in 1918; Dolly, who married W.P. Kling; Clyde C., who is cashier of his father's bank; Burton T., whose name heads this review; Chauncey C., who died in 1924; and Marie, who married M.W. Cornwell. Graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Burton T. Ingels was sent to Herndon, West Virginia, as sales manager for the Guyan Lumber Company. While there he became active in politics as a Republican, and was a justice of the peace from 1910 to 1912, a member of the school board from 1912 to 1916, and in the latter year he was elected president of the board and served in that capacity until 1926. In the latter year he came to Bluefield, bought into the Graham Lumber company, and became its secretary and treasurer. On September 30, 1911, Mr. Ingels married Miss Belva Lillian Price, born at Huntington, West Virginia, July 23, 1892, a daughter of Peter and Marie (Griffith) Price, of Herndon, West Virginia, where for years Mr. Price has been master mechanic for the Guyan Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Price have had the following children born to their marriage: Ellen, who married J.A. Hammersley; Chilton; Mrs. Ingels; Clyde; and Ilma, who married W.A. Finney, of Mullens. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have no children. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, with membership at Rock, West Virginia, and he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Bluefield and the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Herndon. A Methodist in religious faith, he belongs to the Bluefield Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A very interesting bit of pioneer history relative to Ohio centers about Mary Ingels, an ancestor of Mr. Ingels. She was captured by the Indians and carried from Pennsylvania over the Alleghany Mountains into Ohio, where she soon thereafter gave birth to what is claimed was the first white child born west of these mountains. She subsequently escaped from her captors, and, with her baby, managed to get back to her husband and family. It is difficult in these days, not so far off as history regards it, to realize the conditions under which the pioneers of any frontier struggled, especially when they had to also contend with the red foes.
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Obituary for William Vanden Ingels:
Death Removes Oldest Member Of Ingels Family.
Wm. V. Ingels Kept Active Until His 87th Birthday.
Death of William Vanden Ingels removes a familiar figure, a useful and respected citizens, and the scion of an outstanding pioneer family. The end came at 1:15 Thursday afternoon at the Holzer Hospital and yesterday's paper carried a few lines about his passing.
Pneumonia Victim
Mr. Ingels had entered the hospital on Wednesday, June 5, his 87th birthday for treatment for a prostate obstruction. Two or three days later pneumonia developed and hopes for his recovery faded fast. Prior to his last illness he appeared to be as active and alert as the average man of from 65 to 70 years.
As a farmer, former teacher, and long active participant in county politics Mr. Ingels was known throughout the country.
He was born June 5, 1853, the son of Jesse and Mary Waddell Ingels. His birthplace was on Raccoon below Northup, on a farm embracing 960 acres and extending over the junction point of Green, Clay and Harrison tps. He was an older brother of Jasper Clayton Ingels, banker, who died in December, 1934, and was a lineal descendant of Mary Draper Ingels, as glamorous a pioneer figure as Dan'l Boone or Ann Bailey.
Gallipolis newspaper
June 1940
Death Removes Oldest Member Of Ingels Family.
Wm. V. Ingels Kept Active Until His 87th Birthday.
Death of William Vanden Ingels removes a familiar figure, a useful and respected citizens, and the scion of an outstanding pioneer family. The end came at 1:15 Thursday afternoon at the Holzer Hospital and yesterday's paper carried a few lines about his passing.
Pneumonia Victim
Mr. Ingels had entered the hospital on Wednesday, June 5, his 87th birthday for treatment for a prostate obstruction. Two or three days later pneumonia developed and hopes for his recovery faded fast. Prior to his last illness he appeared to be as active and alert as the average man of from 65 to 70 years.
As a farmer, former teacher, and long active participant in county politics Mr. Ingels was known throughout the country.
He was born June 5, 1853, the son of Jesse and Mary Waddell Ingels. His birthplace was on Raccoon below Northup, on a farm embracing 960 acres and extending over the junction point of Green, Clay and Harrison tps. He was an older brother of Jasper Clayton Ingels, banker, who died in December, 1934, and was a lineal descendant of Mary Draper Ingels, as glamorous a pioneer figure as Dan'l Boone or Ann Bailey.
Gallipolis newspaper
June 1940
About the Ingles Family
Data for a Memoir of Thomas Ingles
Southern Illinois Bloodlines - Ingles Clan
SOURCE: This document was provided via e-mail by Kirby S. Ingles on 26 Jan 2013.
Squeezing Water From a Stone: Extracting History From a Store Ledger
History of Blacksburg, Virginia
The history of Blacksburg should begin with a background of pioneer life of those who braved the dangers, privations and hardships of the wilderness. The circumstances and surroundings did not favor the writing or preserving of records and as the older generation passed away, many of them carried with them the recollections and traditions that can never be recovered. We find our most authentic history of Draper's Meadows (1748) afterwards Smithfield (1773) then Blacksburg (1798) written by Dr. John P. Hale.
"Thos. Ingles, according to tradition, was descended from a Scotch family, was born and reared in London, lived about 1730 and 1740, in Dublin, Ireland, was a large importing wholesale merchant, was wealthy, owned his own ship and traded with foreign countries. In some revolution or political trouble occurring during the time of his residence in Dublin, Thos. Ingles took an active part and in the failure of the cause he favored his property was confiscated, and he was lucky to escape with his life. He, with his three sons, William, Matthew, and John came to America and located for a time in Pennsylvania . In 1744 Thos. Ingles and his eldest son William, then only a youth, made an excursion to the Wilds of Southwestern Virginia, going as far as New or Woods River.
"No details of this trip have been preserved, but it was probably at this time that they mad e the acquaintance of the Drapers living at Pattonsburg (on the James River opposite Buchanan) Boutetourt County, Virginia.
"Geo. Draper and his wife whose maiden name had been Elenor Hardin came from county Donegal, north of Ireland, in 1720, and settled at the mouth of the Schmylkill River, within the present limits of the city of Philadelphia. Here two children were born, John in 19\730 and Mary in 1732.
"Between 1740 and 1744 they with their two children came to Virginia and settled in Colonel Patton's settlement, Pattonsburg.
"While the Drapers lived in Pattonsburg, Geo. Draper started out on a game-hunting and land expedition and was never heard of again. About four years later in 1748 Dr. Thos. Walker and Col. James Patton's expedition made an excursion thru Southwestern Virginia and immediately upon the return of Walker and Patton, Thomas Ingles and his three sons--Mrs. Draper and her son and daughter, Adam Harman, Henry Leonard and James Burke came and made the settlement west of the Allegheny divide known as 'Draper's Meadows'.
"The first building and improvements which were built from round logs, as all frontier buildings then were, stood upon the present sites of the 'V.P.I.' and 'Solitude', the residence of the late Col. Robert Preston of Blacksburg."
Very few facts have been preserved in regard to the Ingles-Draper frontier settlement. William Ingles and Mary Draper were married in 1750. This the first white wedding west of the Alleghanies.
After Mrs. Ingles' return they made their home at Drapers Meadow for some time, then exchanged their right for the location now known as Ingles Ferry.
When Mrs. Draper was ransomed by her husband they returned to their old location. There they remained until 1773 when they sold their land to William Preston and moved to Drapers Valley in Pulaski County.
In 1774 William Preston moved his family and changed the name from Draper's Meadow to Smithfield in honor of his wife who was a Miss Susanna Smith. The homesite of Smithfield is not located upon the exact site of Draper's Meadows settlement ; it stands about one half mile to the Southwest. The original building still remains but when the house was first built it was surrounded by a stockade for protection from Indians. After the heirs of William Preston inherited his estate it was in three main divisions, Smithfield, Solitude and Whitethorn. All these buildings still remain and are still in use. The original homesite is still in possession of the Preston heirs.
SOURCE: Mrs. S. A. Wingard 1939
"Thos. Ingles, according to tradition, was descended from a Scotch family, was born and reared in London, lived about 1730 and 1740, in Dublin, Ireland, was a large importing wholesale merchant, was wealthy, owned his own ship and traded with foreign countries. In some revolution or political trouble occurring during the time of his residence in Dublin, Thos. Ingles took an active part and in the failure of the cause he favored his property was confiscated, and he was lucky to escape with his life. He, with his three sons, William, Matthew, and John came to America and located for a time in Pennsylvania . In 1744 Thos. Ingles and his eldest son William, then only a youth, made an excursion to the Wilds of Southwestern Virginia, going as far as New or Woods River.
"No details of this trip have been preserved, but it was probably at this time that they mad e the acquaintance of the Drapers living at Pattonsburg (on the James River opposite Buchanan) Boutetourt County, Virginia.
"Geo. Draper and his wife whose maiden name had been Elenor Hardin came from county Donegal, north of Ireland, in 1720, and settled at the mouth of the Schmylkill River, within the present limits of the city of Philadelphia. Here two children were born, John in 19\730 and Mary in 1732.
"Between 1740 and 1744 they with their two children came to Virginia and settled in Colonel Patton's settlement, Pattonsburg.
"While the Drapers lived in Pattonsburg, Geo. Draper started out on a game-hunting and land expedition and was never heard of again. About four years later in 1748 Dr. Thos. Walker and Col. James Patton's expedition made an excursion thru Southwestern Virginia and immediately upon the return of Walker and Patton, Thomas Ingles and his three sons--Mrs. Draper and her son and daughter, Adam Harman, Henry Leonard and James Burke came and made the settlement west of the Allegheny divide known as 'Draper's Meadows'.
"The first building and improvements which were built from round logs, as all frontier buildings then were, stood upon the present sites of the 'V.P.I.' and 'Solitude', the residence of the late Col. Robert Preston of Blacksburg."
Very few facts have been preserved in regard to the Ingles-Draper frontier settlement. William Ingles and Mary Draper were married in 1750. This the first white wedding west of the Alleghanies.
After Mrs. Ingles' return they made their home at Drapers Meadow for some time, then exchanged their right for the location now known as Ingles Ferry.
When Mrs. Draper was ransomed by her husband they returned to their old location. There they remained until 1773 when they sold their land to William Preston and moved to Drapers Valley in Pulaski County.
In 1774 William Preston moved his family and changed the name from Draper's Meadow to Smithfield in honor of his wife who was a Miss Susanna Smith. The homesite of Smithfield is not located upon the exact site of Draper's Meadows settlement ; it stands about one half mile to the Southwest. The original building still remains but when the house was first built it was surrounded by a stockade for protection from Indians. After the heirs of William Preston inherited his estate it was in three main divisions, Smithfield, Solitude and Whitethorn. All these buildings still remain and are still in use. The original homesite is still in possession of the Preston heirs.
SOURCE: Mrs. S. A. Wingard 1939
Capture and Rescue of the Ingles Family and Killing of Captain Thomas Maxwell
In Tazewell Co., VA, lies Burke's Garden, one of the most beautiful valleys in all of Southwest Virginia. The valley is a bowl 10 miles long by 5 miles wide, snuggled down between beautiful mountains on all sides, with a narrow outlet at one end. This was perhaps the earliest site of a settlement in Tazewell Co., with the Ingles brothers and son building a cabin there in 1749, (1) although they did not make a settlement at this date, only a cabin. The Ingles and Patton families claimed all of Burke's Garden, and after the death of Col. James Patton, his grandson James Thompson seems to have taken over and most of the land eventually came into possession of James Thompson and Dr. Thomas Walker. In 1760 it was known as "Ingles Craborchard." (2) Kegley, in his "Virginia Frontier," (2), says:
Thomas, John and William Ingles of Ingles Mill Creek of the North Fork Roanoke, were among the most interesting of the early settlers. Thomas and John were brothers, William and Matthew, (3) sons of Thomas. Thomas Ingles a grandson of William says, "My great grandfather, Thomas Ingles, was a merchant of Dublin, Ireland, who, upon suspicion of entertaining liberal principles and engaging in a rebellion him and his two sons were sent as convicts to Wales from whence they made their escape to the United States, my grandfather William Ingles being one of the number, they came first to Pennsylvania and from there to this country. (Letter of Thomas Ingles of Lovely Mount, Montgomery Co., 1851). They were here as early as 1746 and were well established when Dr. (Thomas) Walker visited them in 1750. Thomas and his brother John entered land on the waters of New River and Clinch and William as heir to both, came into possession of it. John was killed at Vause's Fort and his wife, Mary, was carried into captivity. When this Mary Ingles returned she married John Miller and went to Carolina. William Ingles came to the Roanoke with his father and Uncle John before 1746. William in 1750 married Mary Draper, but he continued to live on the Roanoke until after 1753, when he purchased land at Draper's Meadows from Col. Patton. He was on the waters of New River in 1754 and 1755.
A neighbor of Ingles, on the Roanoke River, James Burke sold his property there in 1753 and moved to Burkes Garden and lived there until the Indians saw fit to run him out. From Burkes Garden James Burke migrated to Cumberland Co., NC, and in 1760 he and his wife Lucretia, conveyed the remainder of the original Burke land on the Roanoke to Dr. Walker. This is the reason for calling the place Burke's Garden as James Burke seems to have been the first to actually make a settlement in the valley.
At the Draper's Meadows massacre of July 30, 1755, the wife of William Ingles, Mary Draper Ingles, and her small son Thomas, then four years old, were taken captive by the Indians. Mrs. Ingles made her escape, and the details of which has become the classic Indian story of Southwest Virginia. Her son, Thomas, was held captive until ransomed by his father in 1768. He had spent thirteen years with the Indians, had grown to young manhood, spoke their language fluently, and had adopted Indian ways altogether. It is said that upon return he was very unhappy away from his Indian friends, and had much difficulty in readopting to civilized life. He was finally sent to Albemarle Co. By his father and while there married.
William Ingles continued to live on in the area until his death in 1782, leaving at least five children (4), who were: Susannah who married Abraham Trigg; Rhoda who married Byrd Smith; Mary who married John Gills, and Thomas and John Ingles. (5)
Thomas Ingles eventually settled in Burke's Garden on the land he had inherited from his father. He was Commissary for the troops on the Point Pleasant expedition and his feelings were very strong for the Indians.
On the 5th of April, 1782, the Shawnee, under the leadership of Black Wolf made a raid upon Burkes Garden and captured the family of Thomas Ingles.
Pendleton, History of Tazewell County, (6) gives the following:
The Indians had concealed themselves until Ingles went out on his farm to work, and then surrounded his home; and made his wife, their three children and a Negro man and woman prisoner. After taking as much booty as they could carry the Indians started with their prisoners back to Ohio. The cries of the captives attracted the attention of Thomas Ingles and his Negro man while they were plowing in a field.
Seeing the number of Indians, Ingles knew he could do nothing for his family. He and the Negro man, unhitched the horses from the plow and started to the nearest settlement for assistance. Knowing the Indians would make their way back to the head of the Clinch, Ingles crossed the mountains to the nearest settlement on the North Fork of the Holston.. It happened to be Muster Day for the Washington Co. militia and the settlers on the North Fork of the Holston River had assembled, and were being drilled by Captain Thomas Maxwell, who had formerly lived at the head of Bluestone, in Tazewell Co. Maxwell with a party of fifteen or twenty volunteers, went with Ingle's to Burke's Garden to pursue the Indians. (7)
Joseph Hicks (Hix) (8), a single man and his Negro slave were the only other people who lived in Burke's Garden besides the Thomas Ingles family. The day the Indians attacked the Ingles family Hicks and his Negro man were on their way to the home of Ingles and saw the Indians with their captives. He and the Negro man immediately started across Brushy Mountain for help in Bland County. There they secured six or seven men and arrived back in Burke's Garden about the same time Maxwell and his party arrived. The two parties united under Maxwell and went in pursuit of the Indians.
On the fifth day after the capture the advance scouts discovered the Indians, who were camped for the night in a gap of Tug Mountain. It was agreed that Maxwell should take half of the men, and during the night, get in front of the Indians, and Thomas Ingles should remain with the other half in the rear of the Indians, and at daybreak a simultaneous attack should take place. The night was very dark and the ground rough and brushy. Consequently the party with Maxwell lost their way and did not reach the front by daylight.
Maxwell having failed to get to his appointed place on time, and the Indians beginning to rouse from their slumbers, Ingles determined to make an attack with his men. Dr. Thomas Hale, who was a great-grandson of William and Mary Ingles and who collected his information from the records of the Ingles family thus relates what transpired after the attack was made: 'So soon as a shot was fired, some of the Indians began to tomahawk the prisoners, while others fought and fled. Thomas Ingles rushed in and seized his wife just as she received a terrible blow on the head with a tomahawk. She fell covering the infant of a few months old, which she held in her arms. The Indians had no time to devote to it. They tomahawked his little five year old daughter, named Mary, and his three year old son, named William. His Negro servants, a man and woman, captured with his family, escaped without injury.
Dr. Thomas Hale, in his "Trans Alleghany Pioneers," says that "shortly after this occurrence that Thomas Ingles, his wife, and infant daughter, moved to Tennessee and settled in succession on the Watauga River at Mossy Creek, and at Fort Knox, now Knoxville. There his daughter, Rhoda, who escaped death, grew up and married Patrick Campbell. Subsequent to the marriage of his daughter, Thomas Ingles moved to Mississippi, where he lived until he died.
After tomahawking the Ingles children in making their escape the Indians ran close to Captain Maxwell and his party, and, firing on them, killed Captain Maxwell, (9) who was conspicious from wearing a white hunting shirt.
The whites remained on the ground until late in the evening burying Captain Maxwell, who was killed outright, and Thomas Ingle's little son, who died from his wounds during the day. Mrs. Ingles and the little girl were still alive, although badly wounded. Four days after the party arrived at William Wynn's Fort at Locust Hill.
On April 26, 1782, Col. William Preston, wrote Governor Harrison (10), a letter wherein he states: Enclosing a letter to himself from Col. Walter Crockett, dated April 15, 1782, giving account of the killing of Captain Moffet's sons, and the whole family of Captain Ingles in Burke's Garden, - also of his having ordered Col. Cloyd to call out the militia to assemble at "David Doack's Mill", to protect the settlements, as the people talk of "breaking up" unless help is afforded them. He calls also for provisions as they cannot be supplied on Clinch. Col. Preston adds, "I wrote to your Excellency the 10th instant informing you of the damages the savages had done in Montgomery. I last night received the enclosed letter from Colonel Crockett. It appears that Captain ingles family were not burned in the house, as he imagined, but were taken prisoners. He raised a party of men and pursued the enemy; after some days march he overtook them and recovered his wife and one child, both tomahawked, but perhaps not mortally, and his slaves. One of his children they murdered, killed an officer of the party, and made their escape. The enemy attacked some other families, but were repulsed though, I believe without loss. They killed a man on Bluestone, and I am told a woman at Culbertson's Bottom on New River. Their signs have been seen in various parts of the country, which has given the greatest alarm to the inhabitants; and what is extraordinary that five houses they attacked, that four belonged to officers, and some of them a considerable distance within the frontier settlements, which induces me to believe they are conducted by Tories. I am at a loss what measures to fall upon for the defense of the distressed inhabitants.
(1) Statement of Matthias Harman in 1809, Maxwell vs Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended, O. S. 129; N. S. 45. Bill 1807.
(2) Kegley, Virginia Frontier, pages 194-195.
(3) Matthew was a seaman and died unmarried at sea. Statement of Samuel Wilson (born 23 February 1733) Augusta Court Causes Ended, Thompson vs. Ingles, O. S. 46; N. S. 16. Wilson married Rebecca, daughter of James Burke.
(4) Statement William Wynn, Augusta Court Causes Ended, Wynn vs Inglish's heirs, O. S. 48; N. S. 16.
(5) Perhaps the same John English who settled in 1772 on Sugar Hill in Wise Co., near St. Paul, VA, and whose family was murdered there in 1787 by Indians. The name is variantly spelled, Ingles, Inglis, Inglish and English. See story of John English's family in this volume.
(6) Pendleton, History of Tazewell Co., VA, page 443.
(7) David E. Johnson, History of Middle New River Settlements, page 146, says that Henry Harman was of this party also.
(8) Joseph Hix was still in Tazewell Co., in 1809, when he made a deposition in the case, Maxwell vs Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended, O. S. 129; N. S. 45. Bill Filed 1807.
(9) Killed on Tug River at a place still called Maxwell's Gap.
(10) Calendar Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 139.
SOURCE: From the unpublished manuscript, Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers, pages 93-98.
Thomas, John and William Ingles of Ingles Mill Creek of the North Fork Roanoke, were among the most interesting of the early settlers. Thomas and John were brothers, William and Matthew, (3) sons of Thomas. Thomas Ingles a grandson of William says, "My great grandfather, Thomas Ingles, was a merchant of Dublin, Ireland, who, upon suspicion of entertaining liberal principles and engaging in a rebellion him and his two sons were sent as convicts to Wales from whence they made their escape to the United States, my grandfather William Ingles being one of the number, they came first to Pennsylvania and from there to this country. (Letter of Thomas Ingles of Lovely Mount, Montgomery Co., 1851). They were here as early as 1746 and were well established when Dr. (Thomas) Walker visited them in 1750. Thomas and his brother John entered land on the waters of New River and Clinch and William as heir to both, came into possession of it. John was killed at Vause's Fort and his wife, Mary, was carried into captivity. When this Mary Ingles returned she married John Miller and went to Carolina. William Ingles came to the Roanoke with his father and Uncle John before 1746. William in 1750 married Mary Draper, but he continued to live on the Roanoke until after 1753, when he purchased land at Draper's Meadows from Col. Patton. He was on the waters of New River in 1754 and 1755.
A neighbor of Ingles, on the Roanoke River, James Burke sold his property there in 1753 and moved to Burkes Garden and lived there until the Indians saw fit to run him out. From Burkes Garden James Burke migrated to Cumberland Co., NC, and in 1760 he and his wife Lucretia, conveyed the remainder of the original Burke land on the Roanoke to Dr. Walker. This is the reason for calling the place Burke's Garden as James Burke seems to have been the first to actually make a settlement in the valley.
At the Draper's Meadows massacre of July 30, 1755, the wife of William Ingles, Mary Draper Ingles, and her small son Thomas, then four years old, were taken captive by the Indians. Mrs. Ingles made her escape, and the details of which has become the classic Indian story of Southwest Virginia. Her son, Thomas, was held captive until ransomed by his father in 1768. He had spent thirteen years with the Indians, had grown to young manhood, spoke their language fluently, and had adopted Indian ways altogether. It is said that upon return he was very unhappy away from his Indian friends, and had much difficulty in readopting to civilized life. He was finally sent to Albemarle Co. By his father and while there married.
William Ingles continued to live on in the area until his death in 1782, leaving at least five children (4), who were: Susannah who married Abraham Trigg; Rhoda who married Byrd Smith; Mary who married John Gills, and Thomas and John Ingles. (5)
Thomas Ingles eventually settled in Burke's Garden on the land he had inherited from his father. He was Commissary for the troops on the Point Pleasant expedition and his feelings were very strong for the Indians.
On the 5th of April, 1782, the Shawnee, under the leadership of Black Wolf made a raid upon Burkes Garden and captured the family of Thomas Ingles.
Pendleton, History of Tazewell County, (6) gives the following:
The Indians had concealed themselves until Ingles went out on his farm to work, and then surrounded his home; and made his wife, their three children and a Negro man and woman prisoner. After taking as much booty as they could carry the Indians started with their prisoners back to Ohio. The cries of the captives attracted the attention of Thomas Ingles and his Negro man while they were plowing in a field.
Seeing the number of Indians, Ingles knew he could do nothing for his family. He and the Negro man, unhitched the horses from the plow and started to the nearest settlement for assistance. Knowing the Indians would make their way back to the head of the Clinch, Ingles crossed the mountains to the nearest settlement on the North Fork of the Holston.. It happened to be Muster Day for the Washington Co. militia and the settlers on the North Fork of the Holston River had assembled, and were being drilled by Captain Thomas Maxwell, who had formerly lived at the head of Bluestone, in Tazewell Co. Maxwell with a party of fifteen or twenty volunteers, went with Ingle's to Burke's Garden to pursue the Indians. (7)
Joseph Hicks (Hix) (8), a single man and his Negro slave were the only other people who lived in Burke's Garden besides the Thomas Ingles family. The day the Indians attacked the Ingles family Hicks and his Negro man were on their way to the home of Ingles and saw the Indians with their captives. He and the Negro man immediately started across Brushy Mountain for help in Bland County. There they secured six or seven men and arrived back in Burke's Garden about the same time Maxwell and his party arrived. The two parties united under Maxwell and went in pursuit of the Indians.
On the fifth day after the capture the advance scouts discovered the Indians, who were camped for the night in a gap of Tug Mountain. It was agreed that Maxwell should take half of the men, and during the night, get in front of the Indians, and Thomas Ingles should remain with the other half in the rear of the Indians, and at daybreak a simultaneous attack should take place. The night was very dark and the ground rough and brushy. Consequently the party with Maxwell lost their way and did not reach the front by daylight.
Maxwell having failed to get to his appointed place on time, and the Indians beginning to rouse from their slumbers, Ingles determined to make an attack with his men. Dr. Thomas Hale, who was a great-grandson of William and Mary Ingles and who collected his information from the records of the Ingles family thus relates what transpired after the attack was made: 'So soon as a shot was fired, some of the Indians began to tomahawk the prisoners, while others fought and fled. Thomas Ingles rushed in and seized his wife just as she received a terrible blow on the head with a tomahawk. She fell covering the infant of a few months old, which she held in her arms. The Indians had no time to devote to it. They tomahawked his little five year old daughter, named Mary, and his three year old son, named William. His Negro servants, a man and woman, captured with his family, escaped without injury.
Dr. Thomas Hale, in his "Trans Alleghany Pioneers," says that "shortly after this occurrence that Thomas Ingles, his wife, and infant daughter, moved to Tennessee and settled in succession on the Watauga River at Mossy Creek, and at Fort Knox, now Knoxville. There his daughter, Rhoda, who escaped death, grew up and married Patrick Campbell. Subsequent to the marriage of his daughter, Thomas Ingles moved to Mississippi, where he lived until he died.
After tomahawking the Ingles children in making their escape the Indians ran close to Captain Maxwell and his party, and, firing on them, killed Captain Maxwell, (9) who was conspicious from wearing a white hunting shirt.
The whites remained on the ground until late in the evening burying Captain Maxwell, who was killed outright, and Thomas Ingle's little son, who died from his wounds during the day. Mrs. Ingles and the little girl were still alive, although badly wounded. Four days after the party arrived at William Wynn's Fort at Locust Hill.
On April 26, 1782, Col. William Preston, wrote Governor Harrison (10), a letter wherein he states: Enclosing a letter to himself from Col. Walter Crockett, dated April 15, 1782, giving account of the killing of Captain Moffet's sons, and the whole family of Captain Ingles in Burke's Garden, - also of his having ordered Col. Cloyd to call out the militia to assemble at "David Doack's Mill", to protect the settlements, as the people talk of "breaking up" unless help is afforded them. He calls also for provisions as they cannot be supplied on Clinch. Col. Preston adds, "I wrote to your Excellency the 10th instant informing you of the damages the savages had done in Montgomery. I last night received the enclosed letter from Colonel Crockett. It appears that Captain ingles family were not burned in the house, as he imagined, but were taken prisoners. He raised a party of men and pursued the enemy; after some days march he overtook them and recovered his wife and one child, both tomahawked, but perhaps not mortally, and his slaves. One of his children they murdered, killed an officer of the party, and made their escape. The enemy attacked some other families, but were repulsed though, I believe without loss. They killed a man on Bluestone, and I am told a woman at Culbertson's Bottom on New River. Their signs have been seen in various parts of the country, which has given the greatest alarm to the inhabitants; and what is extraordinary that five houses they attacked, that four belonged to officers, and some of them a considerable distance within the frontier settlements, which induces me to believe they are conducted by Tories. I am at a loss what measures to fall upon for the defense of the distressed inhabitants.
(1) Statement of Matthias Harman in 1809, Maxwell vs Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended, O. S. 129; N. S. 45. Bill 1807.
(2) Kegley, Virginia Frontier, pages 194-195.
(3) Matthew was a seaman and died unmarried at sea. Statement of Samuel Wilson (born 23 February 1733) Augusta Court Causes Ended, Thompson vs. Ingles, O. S. 46; N. S. 16. Wilson married Rebecca, daughter of James Burke.
(4) Statement William Wynn, Augusta Court Causes Ended, Wynn vs Inglish's heirs, O. S. 48; N. S. 16.
(5) Perhaps the same John English who settled in 1772 on Sugar Hill in Wise Co., near St. Paul, VA, and whose family was murdered there in 1787 by Indians. The name is variantly spelled, Ingles, Inglis, Inglish and English. See story of John English's family in this volume.
(6) Pendleton, History of Tazewell Co., VA, page 443.
(7) David E. Johnson, History of Middle New River Settlements, page 146, says that Henry Harman was of this party also.
(8) Joseph Hix was still in Tazewell Co., in 1809, when he made a deposition in the case, Maxwell vs Pickens, Augusta Court Causes Ended, O. S. 129; N. S. 45. Bill Filed 1807.
(9) Killed on Tug River at a place still called Maxwell's Gap.
(10) Calendar Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 139.
SOURCE: From the unpublished manuscript, Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers, pages 93-98.
Chalkley's Records of Thomas English in Augusta County, VA:
- Vol. 1 - November 19, 1746. - (131) Road ordered from the Ridge above Tobias Bright's that parts the waters of New River from the branches of Roan Oak to the lower ford of Catabo Creek. Tobias Bright, overseer. Wm. English and two sons, Thos. English and son, Jacob Brown, George Bright, Benj. Oyle, Paul Garrison, Elisha Isaac, John Donahu, Philip Smith, Mathew English and the rest of the tithables as nominated by George Robinson and James Montgomery.
- Vol. 1 - AUGUST 21, 1747. - (261) Son of Philip Smith to be bound to John Buchanan, Admr. of Philip, and one daughter be bound to Thos. English and one to Jacob Harmon.
- Page 276.--4th July, 1749. John Elswick's appraisement, by Thomas Ingliss, James Scaggs, Ebenezer Westcoat.
- Page 247.--4th August, 1749. George Draper's appraisement, by Richard Hall, Wm. Ingless, Thomas Ingless.
- Vol. 1 - MAY 25, 1750. Page (384) Catherine Smith, orphan of Philip Smith, to be bound to Thomas Engles; Elizabeth, ditto, to Adam Harmon.
- Vol. 2 - Page 68.--9th October, 1750: Orphan Catherine Smith bound to Thos. Ingles, Gent.
- Vol. 1 - JUNE 11, 1751--AUGUST 27, 1751. Page (176) This book begins August 1749, but there are no orders but those of suits and actions until August 27, 1751, when a new Court was organized under a commission from the Hon. Lewis Burwell, President of Virginia, dated 11th June, 1751, directed to James Patton, Peter Scholl,* Robert Cunningham, Wm. Jameson, David Stuart,* John Lynn,* Erwin Patterson,* Thos. English, Benj. Borden,* Joseph Kenady, John Denton, Wm. Christian, Robert Breckinridge, John Lewis,* Silas Hart, Andw. Lewis,* James Rutledge, Alexr. Wright, Ro. McClenahan,* Robert Campbell, John Wilson, Richd. Burton, Patr. Martin, James Lockhart, John Mills, Ro. Ramsey, Richd. Woods, John Anderson, John Ruddle, Thos. Stuart, John Lyle, John Buchanan, Thomas Lewis, Archd. Alexander, John Mathews, Adam Dickenson, Mathias Seltzer, Wm. Harbeson. (Those marked (*) qualified.)
- Vol. 1 - NOVEMBER, 28, 1751. - (209) James Nealey, Richard Hall, Thomas English and Tobias Bright, appraise estate of James Connerley.
- Page 417.--21st May, 1752. James Connelly's (Conly's) appraisement, by Thomas Ingles, Tobias Bright, Richard Hall.
- Page 203.--17th February, 1758. Colonel James Patton's estate; appraised by Thomas Stewart, John Ramsey, Edward Hall. List of bonds, bills, &c., due the estate: Thomas English, 13th December, 1752, Thomas English, 15th December, 1752. (listed among many others)
- Page 345.--23d November, 1703 (s/b 1763). Adam Wall's will--To sister, Apell (Apol ?), Wall, 1/2 of his estate which is 150 acres on New River, her part joining on Strupel's Creek; to brother's son, John Wall; to eldest brother's son, Andrew Wall; to Jacob Nomel (?); to sister, Apell Wall, £20 in Adam Harman, Sr.'s hands, and also what is due from Wm. Ingles for beef. Teste: James Calloway, Thos. Ingles, Ezel Morris. Proved, 19th June, 1764, by James Calloway. Apple Wall qualifies administratrix, with Pat. McCollom, Andrew Evans. (Apple's mark ).
- Vol. 2 - Poage's Heirs vs. Taylor & Ingles--O. S. 86; N. S. 29--Saml. Walker deposes that in 1771 he came to App's Valley and found a settlement belonging to Isaac Blangy, or Ballingy, and in the fall of that year he showed Robert Poage some land, where he settled. The Indians came: and he had to move his family to Col. Cloyd's. John Peevy (blacksmith) deposes that in 1772 he came with Jacob Harman, Samuel Walker, James More and others to App's Valley and saw a cabin belonging to Luna (Looney), also Blangy's cabin. The next fall he came again with Robert Poage and others. Thomas Ingles lived in the Valley and left only because, after the battle at the Point, the people were afraid the Indians would revenge Cornstalk's death. Thomas had been a prisoner among the Indians. Thomas did not settle under Blangy, but under his father William's military claim. John Taylor purchased the land when Ingles moved off. From 1774 to 1781 there was great danger from Indians, especially in Abb's Valley. There were many people killed, but none in Abb's Valley. James Moore and John Davidson resided in Abb's Valley from 1773 to 1782. Moore was killed with part of his family by the Indians, in 1786. Danl. Harman deposes, 1806 that he has known the Abb's Valley by that name 46 years. George Peery, brother of Thomas, deposes 1806. Cap. Moore and Robert Poage were brothers-in-law. Moore's wife was Poage. Cap. Moore was killed by Indians in July, 1786. When Robert Poage left this country he went to Georgia. Joseph Allen swears, 1806, that William Mitchel of Kentucky is a material witness. Mitchel said he went with Poage to Abb's Valley in 1772. There was then a cabin called Blangy's or Ballanger's.
- Vol. 2 - Maxwell vs. Pickens, &c.--O. S. 129; N. S. 45--Bill, 1807. Orator is James Maxwell of Tazewell County. In 1772 orator went from Botetourt, where he lived, to present Tazewell County to make a settlement. It was then a wilderness. He was in company with Samuel Walker. Found a tract with some improvements, viz: The foundation of a cabin, some rails split and some trees deadened. That night they fell in with a party of hunters, among them Uriah Stone, who claimed to have made the improvement, and orator purchased it, and the same year moved his family there and lived until 1784. In that time two of his daughters were killed by the Indians. William Ingles set up claim to the land and devised it to his daughter Rhoda, who married Bird Smith. Thomas Peery deposes in Tazewell County in 1809, that in 1772, when deponent went to that country, James Maxwell had made improvements on the lands and had corn growing in May. In 1781 or '82 Indians murdered two of Maxwell's daughters and Maxwell removed his family. James Peery deposes that he went to Tazewell with Major Maxwell. John Peery deposes that John Tollett moved from Georgia to New River. Thomas Witten deposes that he was on the land in 1771. Samuel Walker is about to remove out of the country and William Wynne is aged and infirm in 1807. Mathias Harman deposes, 1809 that when he first came to this country the land in dispute was called Ingles's Crabb orchard and there was an old improvement on it. This was in 1760. Henry Marrs deposes that he first knew Maxwell on the land in 1773 or 1774. About three weeks after murder of Maxwell's daughters, two of Robert Moffitt's sons were taken prisoners by Indians, and about a week after that the family of Capt. Thomas Inglis was taken out of Burk's Garden by Indians and depredations were committed until 1793. Daniel Harman, Sr., deposes 22d June, 1809, that about 49 years ago he was on a hunting expedition and camped on the land in dispute and took shelter in a small cabin built there, said to be Inglis's. Col. Inglis did not himself make the settlement, but it was made by his uncle, John Inglis. Joseph Hix deposes as above, that 44 years ago Col. Wm. Inglis told him that the land was his and he claimed it under his uncle, John Ingles. Lawrence Murry deposes as above, that 33 years ago he was in Wright's Valley at Uriah Stone's cabin. William Cecil deposes as above, that in or about 1771 he, in company with his brother and father, was on the disputed land. Deed dated 24th September, 1805, by John Tollett and Margaret of Tazewell County to Thomas Pickens: 200 acres by survey in 1753 part of Loyal Company's grant. Recorded in Tazewell, 24th September, 1805.
▼ Accounts of Thomas English's family in Early Augusta County, VAThe following deposition taken in Augusta County, VA details much of the relationships of this English family:
- Thompson vs. Ingles--O. S. 46; N. S. 16. William Ingles, son and heir of Thomas Ingles, who was brother and heir of John Ingles. Deposition of James Burk as to settlement of Burke's garden by the Ingles and Pattons. Thomas and John Ingles settled there about 1749; they were brothers. William Ingles, only (surviving) son of Thomas, built a cabin, but did not settle there. Thomas had another son, who was a seaman; was never married and died at sea. William Ingles was heir to John Ingles, who had no family. He was killed before the death of Thomas, who was his eldest brother. He was married, but left no children. (Samuel Wilson's deposition, aged 67, 23d February, 1800.)
From Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, pg. 111-113:
Foote's Sketches of Virginia, second series, contain a long account of the circumstances attending the death of Colonel Patton, and of the captivity and escape of Mrs. Mary Ingles. Dr. John P. Hale, of Kanawha, a desceudent of Mrs. Ingles, in his work called "Trans-Alleghany Pioneers," gives a still fuller and, doubtless, more accurate account, and we shall mainly follow the latter.
Thomas Ingles, says Dr. Hale, came from Ireland when a widower, with his three sous, William, Matthew and John, and settled first in Pennsylvania. According to tradition, he, in 1744, accompanied by his son, William, then a youth, made an excursion into the wilds of Southwest Virginia, going as far as New River. On this occasion, it is supposed, he became acquainted with Colonel James Patton. The latter then or soon afterward held a grant from the British crown of 120,000 acres of land west of the Blue Ridge, at that time Augusta county, but in the present counties of Botetourt, Montgomery, etc. The old town of Pattonsburg, on James river, in Botetourt, was called for him, and the opposite town of Buchanan was so named for his son-in-law, Colonel John Buchanan.
During the same excursion, probably, the Ingleses for the first time encountered the Draper family, who had settled on James River, at Pattonsburg. This family consisted of George Draper, his wife, and his two children, John and Mary. While living at Pattonsburg, George Draper went out hunting, and was never heard of again. About the year 1748 the Ingleses, Drapers, Adam Harman, Henry Leonard and James Burke, removed from James river and settled near the present town of Blacksburg, in Montgomery county, calling the place Draper's Meadow, since known as Smithfield.
In April, 1749, the house of Adam Harman was raided by Indians, but, as far as appears, no murders were perpetrated. This is said to have been the first depredation by Indians on the whites west of the Alleghany. It was reported to a justice of the peace for Augusta county, with a view to the recovery of damages allowed by law.
William Ingles and Mary Draper were married in 1750, and John Draper and Bettie Robertson in 1754. The marriages no doubt took place in Staunton, there being no minister nearer Draper's Meadow authorized to perform the ceremony.
In July, 1755, Colonel Patton went to the upper country on business, and was accompanied, it is said, by his nephew, William Preston. He was resting from the fatigues of his journey, and also seeking recovery from sickness, at the dwelling of William Ingles and the Drapers. It was on Sunday, the 8th of July, says Dr. Hale—but circumstances had led us to fix the date at least a week later*—that an unexpected assault was made on the house by Indians. Preston had gone to Philip Lybrook's to engage his help in harvesting. William Ingles and John Draper were away from the house. Foote says they and others were at work in the harvest field ; but if it was on Sunday the statement is quite certainly incorrect. Mrs. John Draper, being in the yard, was the first to discover the Indians. She hastened into the house to give the alarm, and snatching up her sleeping infant ran out on the opposite side. Some of the Indians fired upon her, breaking her right arm, and causing the child to fall to the ground. Taking up the infant with her left hand she continued her flight, but was overtaken, and the scull of the child was crushed against the end of a log. At the moment of the assault, Colonel Patton was sitting at a table writing, with his broadsword before him. Being a man of great strength, of large frame, and over six feet high, he cut down two Indians, but was shot and killed by others out of his reach. Other persons killed were Mrs. George Draper, the child of John Draper, and a man named Casper Barrier. The Indians plundered the premises, securing all the guns and ammunition, and setting fire to the buildings, immediately started on their retreat, carrying with them as prisoners Henry Leonard, Mrs. John Draper, and Mrs. Ingles and her two children,—Thomas four, and George two years of age. The unarmed men in the field could only provide for their own safety. The country was sparsely settled, and some days elapsed before a rescuing party could be collected.
The Indians, on their hasty retreat, stopped at the house of Philip Barger, an old man, cut off his head and carried it in a bag to Lybrook's. Preston and Lybrook had gone back to Draper's Meadows by a different route from that taken by the Indians, and thus they escaped.
In letters written by Governor Dinwiddie on the nth of August (nine letters were written by him the same day) he referred to Patton's death. To Colonel David Stewart, of Augusta, he wrote .that Patton " was wrong to go so far back without a proper guard." He hoped the wagons with ammunition did not fall into the hands of the Indians ; but he could not conceive what Patton was to do with ammunition "so far from the inhabited part of the country." Writing to Colonel Buchanan at the same date, he expressed regret that the men sent by Buchanan "after the murderers, did not come up with them." This is the only information we have of any pursuit.
A letter written by John Madison, Clerk of the County Court of Augusta, to his cousin, Col. James Madison of Orange, father of President Madison, dated August 19, 1755 (erroneously printed 1753), shows the spirit of the times. We find it in Rieves's Life of Madison. The writer says : "Four families on their flight from a branch of New River this minute passed my house, who say that five men were murdered at the house of Ephraim Voss, on Roanoke, since the death of Col. Patton. 'Tis shocking to think of the calamity of the poor wretches who live on the Holston and New rivers, who for upwards of a hundred miles have left their habitations, lost their crops and vast numbers of their stock. Could you see, dear friend, the women who escaped, crying after their murdered husbands, with their helpless children hanging on them, it could but wound your very soul." He alludes to the appointment of Andrew Lewis as Lieutenant of the county, and expects to see his instructions on next court day. He is extremely obliged to "good friends for the guns sent," and will return them as soon as otherwise provided. He is also much obliged to Col. Madison for an invitation to take refuge with him, but his "train" is too large; and moreover, if he loses his all with his life, his children may as well go too. In a postscript he says: "I verily believe they are determined on our destruction. However, as they come in small parties, if they will be so kind as to stay till I have finished my fort, may Heaven send me a few of them."
There is a Patrick Ingles (English) that appears in early Augusta County, Virginia records. He married an "Alice (listed as "Else" in his will), and was born before 1741 (perhaps well before that date), and appeared in the following records:
Page 103.--30th October, 1761. Patrick Inglish's will--Debts to Major John Brown and Samuel Moore to be paid first for reasons best known to testator; wife, Else, and his poor babes. Executors, John Brown and Saml. Moore. Teste: Geo. Wilson, Henry Maurray. Proved, 20th November, 1761, by Geo. Wilson, and recorded. Saml. Young qualified with Saml. Moore, William Wallace.Page 191.--16th November, 1762. Saml. Young presented his accounts as administrator of Pat. Ingles. Recorded. Sale bill, viz: To Jno. Jamison, Saml. Cloyd, Alice English, Geo. Francisco, Ro. Reed, Wm. Earls, Andw. Greer, Saml. Moore. Paid Henry Murray, Edward Thompson, Robt Scott.It is not known how (and if) there is any relation to this Patrick English. More research is necessary to determine any relationship.
- Page 276.--4th July, 1749. John Elswick's appraisement, by Thomas Ingliss, James Scaggs, Ebenezer Westcoat.
- Page 247.--4th August, 1749. George Draper's appraisement, by Richard Hall, Wm. Ingless, Thomas Ingless.
- Page 417.--21st May, 1752. James Connelly's (Conly's) appraisement, by Thomas Ingles, Tobias Bright, Richard Hall.
- Page 461.--31st October, 1752. Israel Lorton's appraisement by Richard Hall, Benj. Ogle, Thos. Ingles.
- Page 203.--17th February, 1758. Colonel James Patton's estate; (among many others) - Thomas English and John Medley. 9th February, 1754;
- Page 345.--23d November, 1703. Adam Wall's will--To sister, Apell (Apol ?), Wall, 1/2 of his estate which is 150 acres on New River, her part joining on Strupel's Creek; to brother's son, John Wall; to eldest brother's son, Andrew Wall; to Jacob Nomel (?); to sister, Apell Wall, £20 in Adam Harman, Sr.'s hands, and also what is due from Wm. Ingles for beef. Teste: James Calloway, Thos. Ingles, Ezel Morris. Proved, 19th June, 1764, by James Calloway. Apple Wall qualifies administratrix, with Pat. McCollom, Andrew Evans. (Apple's mark ).
Chalkley's Records of William English in Augusta County, VA:
- Page 247.--4th August, 1749. George Draper's appraisement, by Richard Hall, Wm. Ingless, Thomas Ingless.
- FEE BOOKS OF AUGUSTA COURT. - page 119, William Engles, (May), your brother's motion to have you allowed what of the Parish money was consumed in your house; (Note: The Fee Books are the Books of Charges for services rendered, required by law to be kept by the Clerks).
- Page 429.--18th June, 1752. Jacob Lorton and Jacob Harman's bond as administrators of Israel Lorton. with sureties Tobias Bright and Wm. English.
- 1755--List of Robert Breckinridge, Sheriff: Wm. Englis, Constable; Jno. English; Alex. Ingrim (poss. Inglis?) (Note: this record starts out as a list of delinquents, but the section that William and John English are listed in is apparently a processioning list).
- Page 203.--17th February, 1758. Colonel James Patton's estate; appraised by Thomas Stewart, John Ramsey, Edward Hall. List of bonds, bills, &c., due the estate: (among many others) William Ingles, 11th February, 1754;
- Page 170.--15th September, 1758. William Dryer's estate sold to viz: Jno. Mooberry, Ephraim Love, Wm. Cunningham, Wm. Craig, Richard Shanklin, David Nelson, Edward McGary, Charles Differ, Jno. Hughbanks, John Cravens, Thos. Fulton, Wm. Ingles (English), Jas. Thomas, Andrew Erwin, Margt. Dyer, Mathew Black, John Herman, Wm. Brown. Sold and appraised, 5th December, 1759, viz: John Farris, Hugh McGary, Robt. Minnis. Cash due by John Cally. Settlement by Margaret Cravens, late Margaret Dyer, administratrix.
- Page 183.--1st July, 1760. Jomes ( ) Birk and Lucretia, of Cumberland County, North Carolina, to Thomas Walker, of Albemarle, £40, 100 acres on Goose Creek, William Campbell's line. Teste: Wm. Ingles, James Bane, Jno. Hawkins. Delivered: Thomas Madison, 11th March, 1763.
- Page 379.--19th May, 1761. John Draper and Elisabeth ( ) to Richard Doggett, of Bedford County, £75, 315 acres on Tom's Creek; cor. William Inglese's land, Lingell's line. Delivered by your order, September, 1763.
- Page 382.--19th May, 1761. Same to same (John Draper and Elisabeth ( ) to Richard Doggett, of Bedford County), £75, 220 acres, part of 440 acres conveyed to John Draper and William Inglis by Patton, 8th February. 1754 (230 to be laid off next to the land where said John formerly dwelt), cor. land whereon Wm. Inglis lived, stake in the Barrens; cor. Casper Barrier. Delivered.
- Page 78.--15th August, 1761. Johnston Hill's estate appraised by Abraham Smith, Daniel Harrison, Adam Stevenson--James Lawrence's note; Wm. Ingles' ditto; cash in Daniel Ponder's hands; cash in hands of Jonathan Douglass.
- Page 345.--23d November, 1703 (s/b 1763). Adam Wall's will--To sister, Apell (Apol ?), Wall, 1/2 of his estate which is 150 acres on New River, her part joining on Strupel's Creek; to brother's son, John Wall; to eldest brother's son, Andrew Wall; to Jacob Nomel (?); to sister, Apell Wall, £20 in Adam Harman, Sr.'s hands, and also what is due from Wm. Ingles for beef. Teste: James Calloway, Thos. Ingles, Ezel Morris. Proved, 19th June, 1764, by James Calloway. Apple Wall qualifies administratrix, with Pat. McCollom, Andrew Evans. (Apple's mark ).
- Page 763.--10th January, 1764. John Buchanan and Wm. Thompson executors of James Patton, £215, 400 acres on north side James River. Teste: Henry Field, Wm. Simpson, Thomas ( ) Garraway, Jno. Frazer, Wm. and Alex. Ingles (Note: this certainly indicates some type of relationship between William English and Alexander English (b. bef. 1744) who is also in early records of Augusta County, possibly a brother or cousin?)
- Page 357.--19th January, 1767. Daniel Brown, of Orange County, North Carolina, to Isaac Taylor, £30, 103 acres on Little River, a branch of New River, mouth of Old Field Creek. Teste: William Ingles, Samuel Adams, Henry Brown. Delivered: John Reaburn by your order, October, 1768.
- Page 424.--28th March, 1767. Richard Stanton and Charity ( ) to William Herbert, £105, tract that Thomas Stanton, Sr., purchased from John Bengamon, Sr., to whom it was patented, 20th June, 1753, containing 460 acres on a branch of Woods River at place called Poplar Camp. Teste: Is. Christian, Anthony Bledsoe, W. Ingles, John Hanha, Jacob Lorton ( ), Edmund Vausell, James Hodge, Andrew Miller. Delivered: Thomas Madison.
- Page 67.--21st November, 1767. William Ingliss' bond (with Israel Christian) to keep the public ferry established on his land across New River. (Note: this became known as "Inglis' Ferry")
- Page 81.--12th February, 1768. Frederick Starn (Stern) to George Teetar, £10, 85 acres by patent 22d August, 1753, on Crab Creek, a branch of New River. Teste: W. Ingles, William Davis, John Taylor, John and Wm. Buchanan. Sent to George Teeter by his order, April, 1769.
- Page 271.--14th March, 1768. William Bryan to James Bryan, £100, 267 acres on Roanoke, alias Goose Creek; corner William Bryans, Jr., James Burk's line. Teste: William Ingles, William Tutt, Samuel Woods, William Preston. Delivered: Mr. Samuel Lewis, 16th January, 1772.
- Page 49.--26th April, 1769. James ( ) Scaggs (Skeggs), Sr., and Rachel ( ) to James Scaggs, Jr., £100, 104 acres patented to Samuel Ratlive 22d August, 1753, and conveyed to James, Sr., on Meadow Creek, a branch of New River. Teste: William Preston, Richard Whitt, James ( ) Skggs, John ( ) Skggs, Is. Christian, James Buchanan, W. Ingles.
- Page 237.--(17th August, 1769. The estate of Col. James Patton, Dr.--) By cash from, viz (apparently in payment of piece of land belonging to Col. Patton's estate): Wm. Ingles (among many others).
- Ross vs. Smith--O. S. 14; N. S. 5--Bill filed 9th July, 1798. David Ross complains that in 1753, 24th October, under Order of Council granting lands to the Loyal Company, a survey was made of 190 acres for Timothy, Col _____, in Washington County, formerly Augusta, in Rich Valley on waters of the North Fork of Holstein River. The Company gave titles upon payment of surveyors' fees and £3 for every 100 acres. Dr. Thomas Walker, now deceased, had the management of the affairs of the Company, as well as being a member, and he appointed William English his agent. Cole abandoned his land, and then in September, 1768, Joseph Scott and Stephen Trigg paid the fees on the same tract and received a receipt therefor on 16th January, 1773. Scott transferred his right to Stephen. Ross purchased from Stephen, 18th August, 1775. George Smith was then in possession. The affairs of the Loyal Company were brought before the Supreme Court, and on 3d May, 1783, the title of the Company to all lands surveyed by them prior to 1776 was established. Answer says (Fisher? Jasper?) Cox first improved the land. The name is probably Jester Cocke. Dr. Walker was from Albemarle. See this suit for settlement of Holston and names.
- Maxwell vs. Pickens, &c.--O. S. 129; N. S. 45--Bill, 1807. Orator is James Maxwell of Tazewell County. In 1772 orator went from Botetourt, where he lived, to present Tazewell County to make a settlement. It was then a wilderness. He was in company with Samuel Walker. Found a tract with some improvements, viz: The foundation of a cabin, some rails split and some trees deadened. That night they fell in with a party of hunters, among them Uriah Stone, who claimed to have made the improvement, and orator purchased it, and the same year moved his family there and lived until 1784. In that time two of his daughters were killed by the Indians. William Ingles set up claim to the land and devised it to his daughter Rhoda, who married Bird Smith. Thomas Peery deposes in Tazewell County in 1809, that in 1772, when deponent went to that country, James Maxwell had made improvements on the lands and had corn growing in May. In 1781 or '82 Indians murdered two of Maxwell's daughters and Maxwell removed his family. James Peery deposes that he went to Tazewell with Major Maxwell. John Peery deposes that John Tollett moved from Georgia to New River. Thomas Witten deposes that he was on the land in 1771. Samuel Walker is about to remove out of the country and William Wynne is aged and infirm in 1807. Mathias Harman deposes, 1809 that when he first came to this country the land in dispute was called Ingles's Crabb orchard and there was an old improvement on it. This was in 1760. Henry Marrs deposes that he first knew Maxwell on the land in 1773 or 1774. About three weeks after murder of Maxwell's daughters, two of Robert Moffitt's sons were taken prisoners by Indians, and about a week after that the family of Capt. Thomas Inglis was taken out of Burk's Garden by Indians and depredations were committed until 1793. Daniel Harman, Sr., deposes 22d June, 1809, that about 49 years ago he was on a hunting expedition and camped on the land in dispute and took shelter in a small cabin built there, said to be Inglis's. Col. Inglis did not himself make the settlement, but it was made by his uncle, John Inglis. Joseph Hix deposes as above, that 44 years ago Col. Wm. Inglis told him that the land was his and he claimed it under his uncle, John Ingles. Lawrence Murry deposes as above, that 33 years ago he was in Wright's Valley at Uriah Stone's cabin. William Cecil deposes as above, that in or about 1771 he, in company with his brother and father, was on the disputed land. Deed dated 24th September, 1805, by John Tollett and Margaret of Tazewell County to Thomas Pickens: 200 acres by survey in 1753 part of Loyal Company's grant. Recorded in Tazewell, 24th September, 1805.
- Winn vs. Inglish's heirs--O. S. 48; N. S. 16. In 1771 Valentine Harmon took possession of a tract on Clinch River, in present Tazewell County and raised a cabin on it. In 1773 he sold to orator William Winn (Wynn) by writing executed September, 1800, acknowledged in Lincoln County, Ky. Orator lived on the land from 1773 until Commissioners sat to adjust titles, but a certain Wm. Inglish, since deceased, claimed the tract and got a certificate by a survey made for the Loyal County, which claim orator charges is fraudulent. Henry Harmon, Sr., had a son Henry Harmon, Jr.; also a son Hezekiah Harmon. William Christian and Daniel Trigg, executors of William Inglish; Abraham Trigg and Susannah, his wife, late Inglish; Bird Smith and Rhoda, his wife, late Inglish; John Gills (Grills) and Mary, his wife, late Inglish; John and Thomas Inglish, heirs and devisees of William; Henry Harmon, Sr., answers 27th October, 1804, that Obadiah Garwood made the first settlement in 1752. Henry was in the habit of collecting the men and fighting the Indians. On his return from such an expedition he called at his brother's (Valentine?), who lived near complainant. One of his sons named Daniel was killed by Indians. Henry Harman and Hezekiah Harman answer: In 1752 Obadiah Garwood and his two sons, Noah and Samuel, came from the Northward and settled; remained some time and then went to remove their families, but the Indian War broke out and the country became untenable. Valentine Harman removed to Kentucky about 1775-1776. William Inglish died in 1782 testate, leaving the land to his daughter Susannah, wife of Abraham Trigg. Jeremiah Pate deposes he helped the Garwoods improve the land. He says they were Samuel and his two sons, Obadiah and Noah. Thomas Pierie deposes 30th, May, 1805: Daniel Harman, Sr., is brother to Henry Harman, Sr., and uncle to Henry Harman, Jr., and his father-in-law and uncle to Hezekiah Harman. Jeremiah Pate, Sr., is a brother-in-law to Henry Harman, Sr., and an uncle to Henry Harman, Jr. Thomas Pierie's son married William Wynne's daughter. Col. James Maxwell deposes he went to Clinch in 1772. John Peerey deposes. Jesiah Wynne, son of William, deposes. Daniel Harman, Sr., deposes 30th May, 1805, that the spring he moved to the head of Clinch; Valentine Harman lived on the plantation where Henry Harman, Jr., now lives and Valentine sold to Wm. Wynne for a mare, a horse and a wagon. Samuel Walker deposes 30th May, 1805: In 1771 he came to the head of Clinch and met Valentine, who said he was coming to it or this country to see after "some Harres that run Hear." The following fall, deponent came again with Robert Moffitt. Shortly afterwards two men came out, viz: John Stutler and Uriah Stone, and the spring following, said Moffett moved his family out. Oliver Wynne deposes, son of William. Lawrence Murry deposes that the spring after the Chericee War he came into this country. William Wynne was in possession that and the next year, and then his son-in-law Peter Edwards was in possession 3 or 4 years, then Wynne occupied it one or two years, then a cropper named John Ridgel (Rigdgel) occupied it. Daniel Harman, Sr. (above), is brother of Henry Harman, Sr. Christopher Marrs, brother-in-law of Wm. Wynne, deposes Jeremiah Pate, Sr., of Little River in Montgomery County, is brother-in-law to Henry Harman, Sr., who is uncle to Henry Harman, Jr. Henry Harman, Sr., had one of his sons killed, skalped and massacred by the Indians in the attempt of settling the land who left a wife and four young children. John Peery (Blacksmith) deposes (there seem to have been two John Peerys).