Mary Draper Ingles (1732-February 1815) was an American pioneer. Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Irish immigrants, she was raised in Pattonsburg and Blacksburg on the Virginia frontier and married the settler William Ingles in 1750. On 30 July 1755, during the French and Indian Wars, Shawnee warriros raided Draper's Meadow and killed Mary's mother, niece, a neighbor, and Colonel James Patton and took Mary, her two sons, her sister-in-law, and another neighbor captive. Her sons were adopted by Shawnee families, while Mary came to sew shirts for the Shawnee and was paid well for her work. She escaped from the Big Bone salt lick in October 1755, and she and an old German woman followed the Ohio River and crossed 145 creeks and rivers using logs as rafts. Their 600-mile journey brought them back to safety, and Draper reached Dunkard's Bottom and resumed farming with her husband. They later relocated to Fort Vause and Montvale, and her brother-in-law was killed and another captured in a Shawnee raid on Fort Vause in June 1756. Draper provided information on the location, size, and layout of Lower Shawneetown for her husband, but the British attack on the Shawnee town failed. In 1762, she and her husband established the Ingles Ferry across the New River, and she died there in 1815.