On 30 July (or 8 July, according to John P. Hale  and Letitia Preston Floyd), 1755, during the French and Indian War, a band of about sixteen Shawnee warriors (then allies of the French) raided Draper's Meadow and killed at least four settlers, including Colonel James Patton, Mary's mother and Mary's infant niece, and a neighbor named Caspar Barger.
On July 30 (or July 8, according to John P. Hale and Letitia Preston Floyd), 1755, during the French and Indian War, Shawnee warriors, who were then allied with the French, attacked Draper's Meadow and killed at least four settlers: Colonel James Patton, Mary's mother, Mary's infant niece, and a neighbor named Caspar Barger.