Follow The River

Where were the husbands??They were out tending to crops and return and had seen the aftermath

of the battle.

July 8th 1755Drapers Meadows

present day Blacksburg, Va

Indian raid

Prisoners were taken

The Journey

•Bettie Drapper- Indian Village near

Chillicothe Thomas Drapper-

DetroitGeorge Drapper

diesMary Ingles- a salt lick near Cincinnati

At the Scioto and Ohio River the Group splits up

From summer to Fall

• Mary and a Dutch woman escape together • Leaves baby behind• No supplies lives off land• Six weeks= 500 miles