Women / Persons ~ P24876
Mrs. Clendennin
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1730
Types:
- Adventure, physical feat or survival
- Colonial, colonist in America
- Frontierswoman
- Prisoner or captive
Note: anecdote of captivity, defiance. Ca. 1763 group of Shawanese treated with hospitality in Greenbriar area of Western Virginia, her husband Archibald Clendennin slaughtered along with others; she escapes and buries her dead.