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About Mary "Polly" Bush
Mary “Polly” Hacker Bush BIRTH 1747 DEATH 18 Jan 1802 (aged 54–55) Virginia, USA BURIAL Unknown
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139387417/mary-bush
Children Photo Sarah Susannah Bush Carpenter 1772–1855
http://www.dobbins.net/tree/hacker/johnbush.php Of the two Bush children who were carried into captivity by the Indians that fateful day, one source says that they were a boy and a girl and that they were recovered in about two years. The boy supposedly died soon after his release. Another account says that the captive children were both girls and that one was nearly grown at the time. It is said that this older girl too up with a Canadian trader whom she promised to marry. At the time of the Greenville Treaty of 1795 these girls and 100 others from the upper Monongahela River in West Virginia were delivered to the whites. John Hacker, the uncle of the Bush girls, brought them home. But the older girl promised her Canadian fiancé that she would return and within one month of being brought back to West Virginia she left and went west and was never heard of again.
As has been said John Bush's widow and children left the property shortly after John Bush's death, and they had to go to court over the title to the place after George Adam did not fulfill his promise to make a deed for the property to the family. John Bush's children were placed in foster care, being bound out to various trades and other people. In 1796 Daniel Bush, son of John Bush, was an object of charity and was granted an allowance for this care by the Harrison County court. William, another son, was bound to Isaac Votaw to learn the black smithing trade. Mary was bound to Henry McWhorter to learn the art of spinning, and James was bound to Archer Hathaway to learn black smithing, and Jacob was bound to Peter Linch to learn the trade of wheelwright.
Mary Bush, the widow of John Bush, was deceased by 1802. John Hacker administered her estate. Most of her children left the area, going to Ohio or to the Mississippi country or other places. Today a commemorative stone in the Heavener Cemetery at Buckhannon marks the location of Buckhannon Fort and the contribution of John Bush to the frontier defenses during the American Revolution. His name survives as one of the prominent figures in the border history and the Revolutionary era settlement of the region
Mary "Polly" Bush's Timeline
1747 |
1747
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Stafford County, Virginia, Colonial America
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1765 |
1765
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Hampshire or Hardy County, WV, United States
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1770
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1771
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June 18, 1773
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Harrison County, Virginia, now, West Virginia, Colonial America
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1776
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1777
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1779
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December 31, 1784
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Freemans Creek, Lewis County, West Virginia, United States
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1785
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Harrison County, Virginia (WV), United States
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