Be sitting down, when they press the button jump up and scream No! Please don't take me back there! I have had enough! Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else. Let me introduce myself.
Background info (birthplace, birthdate, any relevant childhood info., relevant relationship info., etc.):
I am Mary Draper Ingles. I was born in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania in 1732 to George and Elenor Draper who were Irish immigrants. I lived in Drapers Meadow with my parents and siblings whose names were Martha, Jane, John and John Sr.
What led up to the main event?:
I was married to William Ingles in 1750 and we were the first couple married west of the allegheny mountains. We had two sons, Tommy, who was four, and George who was two. We lived next to …show more content…
They didn't make us go through the gauntlet because of the forage that we had shown. We saw some people brutally murdered when going through the gauntlet. Two French men were in the Indian town and I sewed red cloth that was sought after for them. In payment, they let me keep some blankets to keep my sons and I warm. This time of peace couldn't last forever. There was an auction and all of the captives were sold. My sons were sold to an Indian brave that would later adopt them. I was also sold to another Indian, but I continued working for the French …show more content…
She was called a Dutch woman,but Dutch referred to German. No one knows what her name was. We were taken to Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. My sons weren't with me, so now was my chance to escape. If i had a daughter, I left her at Big Bone Lick. She couldn't survive the journey. The Lick was over 200 miles farther from home, but it had a big advantage.we wouldn't have to cross the Ohio River. When we escaped, it was late October. We had no food or supplies besides an old, dull tomahawk and two knives. We walked past harvested fields and we picked up the leftover squash and corn to eat. That is all we had. The journey was made a lot longer because neither of us could swim, so we had to walk up and down the tributaries to find a place to walk across. After a few days, we ran out of squash and corn. We then survived on lots of things. Black walnuts, pawpaws, grapes, unknown roots and berries, dead animals, snails, leaves, bark and lichen were what we mainly survived on. I had a scary scrape with death when we were coming upon the end of our journey. Things got so desperate, that the Dutch woman tried to kill me. At that point, both of us were starving. She tried to kill me in my sleep. Luckily, I woke up and ran away in time. I felt bad that I had to leave her, but my life was in