1st wife of Hugh Cunningham

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Hugh Cunningham's father & mother, son and his wife were both killed in the 2nd Kerr's Creek Massacre, on the tract on the Borden Grant that Hugh Cunningham acquired in 1748.

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House of Burgesses, 19 January 1764: A Petition of Hugh Cunningham, setting forth that on the 17th of July last [17 July 1763, 2nd Kerr's Creek Massacre] the Savages of an incursion met with his father and mother, and inhumanly murdered them, together with his Wife and Son, captivated [captured] his Daughter, and shot him in the breast, the bullet lodging in his shoulder; that the wound is still-open, and he labours in much main and anguish; they likewise rode away [with] his horses, shot down his cattle in the fields, burnt his House and Barn, and all his Corn, and left him destitute even of Bread and Clothing; and praying some Compensation for his Loffes [losses], was presented to the House and read; and the Question being put that the laid Petition be referred to a Committee. It passed in the Negative. Resolved, That the said Petition be rejected. [Source: The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1619-1776, 1761-1765, pg. 215].