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On Saturday, Feb. 12, 1675, the sons Isaac and Jacob were killed by the Indians on the south side of Quagana hill. They, at the time, were threshing grain in the barn on the Shepard homestead. Being aware of the perilous times,—this was during King Philip’s War—the sons had set their sister (niece?) Mary on the summit of the hill to watch for Indians.
The ground was covered with deep snow and the Indians traveled with snowshoes. Eluding the vigilance of Mary who was only about thirteen years old, they swooped down up on the Shepard barn before she was aware of their presence and slew Isaac and Jacob.
She was taken captive and carried to Nashawa,—now called Lancaster, or some place in that vicinity. During the first night after her capture she escaped and reached home the next morning. In the dead of night, Mary took a saddle from under the head of her Indian keeper who was sunk in sleep increased by ardent spirits, put the saddle on a horse which the Indians had stolen at Lancaster, mounted it, swam it across the Nashawa river, rode through the forest to her home.The leader of the Indian band is supposed to have been Netus, sometimes called Nipmuck Captain
On Saturday, Feb. 12, 1675, the sons Isaac and Jacob were killed by the Indians on the south side of Quagana hill. They, at the time, were threshing grain in the barn on the Shepard homestead. Being aware of the perilous times,—this was during King Philip’s War—the sons had set their sister (niece?) Mary on the summit of the hill to watch for Indians.
The ground was covered with deep snow and the Indians traveled with snowshoes. Eluding the vigilance of Mary who was only about thirteen years old, they swooped down up on the Shepard barn before she was aware of their presence and slew Isaac and Jacob.
She was taken captive and carried to Nashawa,—now called Lancaster, or some place in that vicinity. During the first night after her capture she escaped and reached home the next morning. In the dead of night, Mary took a saddle from under the head of her Indian keeper who was sunk in sleep increased by ardent spirits, put the saddle on a horse which the Indians had stolen at Lancaster, mounted it, swam it across the Nashawa river, rode through the forest to her home.The leader of the Indian band is supposed to have been Netus, sometimes called Nipmuck Captain
Captain William Tisue (also Tissue, Tyshue, Tyshoe, Tice, Tyse - all spellings for the same man) was in the Revolutionary Service.His first wife was a neighbor, Mary Hendrickson, and they had three children, John, James, and an infant daughter The murders of Mary and their daughter has become legend. William was offered a commission in the army during the Revolutionary War but hesitated to accept until he acquired the services of a young German "redemptioner" in Baltimore.
Assuming the family to be in good hands, William accepted the commission of captain in the 1st Battery of the Bedford County Militia. But tragedy soon struck. The farm hand had developed a strong attraction to Mary, and when she repelled his advances, he bludgeoned her to death and dismembered her body. After burying her remains under the house, he set it on fire.
Unfortunately, the infant daughter lay forgotten in her crib, and also perished. Their two small boys were taken hostage and before their eventual release, he cut out both their tongues. Neither child was ever normal again after this psychological and physical horror.
I know someone was killed by Indians...I'll have to look up who.
According to the History of Talbot County, 1627, William Clayborne named Sharp's Island and Popley's Island (Poplar). Popeley's, later to be called Poplar Island, was given to Richard Thompson and was the first part of Talbot to be planted, settled, and the first to know an Indian massacre. This island was named for Lt. Richard Popely who came with 100 men from Elizabeth Citie, Virginia to help defend the early settlement. One of the men who came with Lt. Richard Popely was another ancestor, William Medcalfe. In the summer of 1637, Richard Thompson returned from a trading expedition to find wife, children and servants murdered. Nine inhabitants were dead and it was considered the worst massacre in Maryland history.
Stude it's not the story that I have issues with. It's your use of comic sans.
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