Jane McCrea (c. 1752 – July 27, 1777) was an American woman who was killed by a Native American warrior serving alongside a British Army expedition under...
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particular, the death at Indian hands of the young Loyalist settler Jane McCrea was widely publicized and served as a catalyst for rebel support, as...
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Crosse, Wisconsin, the son of Duncan McMillan, a director of the State Bank of La Crosse, and Mary Jane McCrea. His father's grand house was opposite...
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American Revolution, practiced scalping. The most famous case was that of Jane McCrea, whose fiancé was a Loyalist officer. She was abducted by Iroquois, loyal...
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Rebecca Franks Flora MacDonald Catherine Montour Frederika Charlotte Riedesel Mollie Sneden Mixed loyalty Margaret Kemble Gage Jane McCrea Nancy Ward...
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in 1803, also visiting England in 1805, where he painted the Death of Jane McCrea for Joel Barlow. Vanderlyn then went to Rome, where he painted his picture...
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typhus outbreak. The Life of Jane McCrea: With an Account of Burgoyne’s Expedition in 1777 (1853), a biography of Jane McCrea. Henrietta Robinson (1855)...
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interred at the Union Cemetery in Fort Edward, NY alongside Jane McCrea and her cousin Sara McNeil. Inspired by the history and legend, Rich Nardin wrote...
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Accessed October 6, 2018. "Jane McCrea was born in Bedminster (now Lamington), New Jersey, in 1752 to James McCrea and Mary Graham McCrea, both immigrants from...
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a long line of McCreas who came to Delaware and Pennsylvania near two hundred years earlier. His parents were James Alexander McCrea and Ann Bispham...
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