Program Description
Event Details
Join us for a History Alive! program with Thomas Ingles and learn about this fascinating local historical figure. Thomas Ingles straddled two cultures before and after the birth of the United States. Born to a pioneer Virginia couple, William and Mary Ingles, Thomas was captured along with his mother in a frontier raid at the age of four, and was given to a Shawnee family in present-day Ohio to be raised in place of their deceased child.
Returning to his birth parents as a Shawnee man at the age of 17, Thomas received a Virginia gentleman's education and served in the Point Pleasant campaign of Dunmore's War in 1774 -- a conflict that pitted his Virginia and Shawnee communities against each other on the battlefield. Conflict with his former Shawnee people continued through the Revolutionary War, when he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia.
Portrayed by Doug Wood of Hurricane.
This presentation is a History Alive! program of the West Virginia Humanities Council. This program is also part of the library's Summer Library Club: Unearth A Story programming and our America 250 celebration.
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