in 1755, General Braddock led an unsuccessful mission to attack the French Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian war.  The battle failed slow badly for the British, the General himself was killed in the conflict.  This led way to several Native American attacks on local villages and settlements in Pennsylvania.

Mathew Leander Patton is my sixth grandfather and he came to the United States from Scotland.  He was born aboard the ship his father and mother sailed on escaping religious persecution in 1705.

Later, Mathew would marry Elizabeth Jane Alexander in 1723 and would own property in the community called the Great Cove.

As a result of the battle failure by Braddock, the French related Native American tribes, Shawnees and Delawares would attack Penn Creek and massacre many of the settlers there on October 16th, 1755.

Following the attack, the same tribes attacked the Great Cove  on November 1, 1755, where my Grand Father and Grand Mother would luckily escape the attack.  However, 47 of the 93 residents would not.  The people endured torture, scalping and many other horrible acts of sorrow.

The locals worked with the Cherokee Native Americans and went after the attacking party to recover some of the people taken during the attack.

My Grand Father would allow a Fort Loudon to be built on his land and several of his sons would be become Captains during the Revolutionary War.

Mathew Patton’s Daughter married Thomas Couch and down the Couch lineage, Edna Couch married George Baker.

Originally posted 2021-02-21 17:34:01.