Jenny Wiley's Heroic Escape from Indian Captivity, near Paintsville, Kentucky in 1788 (Ep. 3 of 3)
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- In this episode we read from the 1910 book by William Elsey Connelley: "Eastern Kentucky papers; the founding of Harman's Station, with an account of the Indian Captivity of Mrs. Jennie Wiley and the exploration of the Big Sandy Valley in the Virginias and Kentucky .
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My Amish ancestor, Jacob Hochstetler Sr., was captured along with two of his sons in Pennsylvania by the Delaware Indians during the French And Indian War. Jacob later escaped and had a similar dream that helped him in his escape. The entire story can be found in the book “Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler” by Harvey Hostetler.
That is amazing.
I hope His sons escaped too😢
I will look for the book. Thank you
Wow 😮 That is incredible and I believe it 100%
Sir I'm not from the USA' can you give me a truthful view on opinion of Native Americans nowadays. I'm just getting some statistics thank you for your time.
Thank you for posting this information. My grandmother was very proud that Jenny was her gggg/gm.
She was my 5th gg.
Much more exciting than anything Hollywood thinks up....
That's the truth. I have watched all the old films, and now even channels like TCM will not show great movies for fear they will offend… So over it… Hasn't been a good new movie out in a long time no plats no stories no histories… Even the one about Lincoln was wrong. Connecticut didn't have slavery. I am enjoying this series and other history channels. And the fact that they're true is even more amazing.
I can't believe all she had to go through. She had 5 children and her 15 year old brother that got killed right in front of her. But when she got back from her journey, she had 5 more 😭😄
I just bought Very old book. It was printed in 1819. A History of the Indian wars in New England. I should have it by Christmas.
Jenny is a hero .. brave beautiful woman .. just so sad losing her children. What strength and bravery ..
Unworthy History is Worthy . 🤠🖖♨️
Another great series! Thanks for the hard work.
Good series.
Love your channel! God bless
I love this Unworthy History! Thank you for sharing it
Thank you for speaking the truth about history. I am indigenous, and I know history is not pretty. I like your uncensored approach to voicing of both sides
Humans are humans-some good, some bad...
It was a difficult time to live, regardless if you were white or native.
Hearty agreement.. Humanity has plenty of wickedness to go around..
enjoying this page very much !
Great story thanks.
Awesome! Thanks👍
The "messenger/rescue" type dream I've heard before. In the early 1800s a British ship got beached and wrecked on the northern west coast of Africa. The worst area to be stranded as the Sahara Desert runs right into the Atlantic. Plus the storm blew them too far off the shipping lane to be seen. I forget some details but the survivor got captured by Arab nomads who made him a slave and were physically abusive. He had to drink his own urine etc etc.
He was losing hope when he started having a repeated dream. A man in a British type uniform, standing by a desk in an office kept encouraging him to endure and he would meet the slavers and rescue him. The slave holders decided to dump the sailor before he died on them, so they headed to a Mediterranean coast town. There just happened to be a British outpost in that town. To keep this short, a British officer found the sailor at the slave market. When the sailor saw him he knew this was the exact person who'd been in his dreams. The sailor was bought from his captors and he later returned to Britain.
I believe I read that book. But I don't remember the Captain having any dreams. I do remember 2/or 3 of his crew being rescued, as well as the Captain, after several years of captivity.
I totally believe. After a massive heart attack I felt my soul leaving my body. They got the clot I survived. However, some of my dreams since have been true foretellings coming from deceased relatives. I am pretty astounded by them that myself and they happen to me. There is much more than we know
What Whites endured as slaves of the Ottomans makes "Roots" look like summer camp.
Scary stuff. Escaping from the Indians, and being tracked by them. What a nightmare.
Thank you for sharing all 3 episodes.
Great series! Thanks for keeping this perilous time in our history alive.
Well done and many thanks.
An incredible period of American history, wild, dangerous but wonderful
Good Stuff keep up the good work . Thank you really enjoying the stories!
Outstanding content !
Thanks for the great story. I love learning about this type of history
Stories like this are at the Library.
Iove listen to your history channel it's very informative and some of your content is really gripping and I have to wait for other episodes of what was going on at the time. Very enjoyable 👍
Great ending.👍
This is so interesting thank you
Love this channel!
It’s very interesting to me.. at the time that this all took place , my ggg grandparents and family lived just west of where this happened in Berea. I wonder how safe they were where they lived.
This horrible. What a horrific story
My great,great…grandmother
❤️🙏
Wow, you come from a strong family line. You should be very proud.
I’m waiting on An old book with a print date of 1813. It’s about the Indian wars in New England. I should have it tomorrow.
Sounds like Divine intervention.
Great history so interesting
Another fascinating video, was interesting to see that the narrative touched on the fact that the captive was defiled maybe by the Indians and even came back pregnant
They were hard times
He doesn't say that this was a fact just that there were other accounts that an Indian girl may have been born to her after her escape. He also points out that there were accounts of her being taken to another location and sold as a wife but that these have very little uniformity and appeared to be conjecture. From this I gather that there is no factual evidence of her giving birth shortly after her escape or that she was defiled.
Dreams and visions are the God spirit primary language
Yes! 💯🎯
Yes!
Thanks!
Thank you!
Very interesting series glad I got to watch it, I’m curious did it ever mention the name of the Cherokee chief in the book at all? I’m assuming based on the time period that he was a Chickamauga chief.
No, to my recollection it never mentioned the Cherokee chief's name.
From the book by William Elsey Connoly I read his name was "Beige".
The Shawnee referred to Tias Harmon as the Little Devil with the Big Nose.
It is hard to believe one of my far back relatives was captured by Indians, inured grievously, and was scalped and killed at
" Betsy's run" In west Virginia.; because she was bleeding out despite being tended by her captors. (the creek so named after her Elizabeth Dragoo) Her son lived with the Indians and married a squaw and died with them in Ohio at age 27. His 4 children were sent to live with white men, named Hayes, in a treaty with the Indians, and were taken back to the Appalachia in Kentucky.
The dead tree just happened to break n 3 pieces
Horns are in Vansant!
Why did you name your channel UNWORTHY History?
He explains that at the beginning of video.
Oh he changed it?
Skip to the end of any recent video to hear about that. It's also bc my last name is Worthy
Skaggs dna suggest he descended from Isle of Man.
Does this narrative ever acknowledge the vast number of eastern European/western Asian presence in Kentucky by the mid 1700s? The more I learn about where and when certain groups established strongholds, like the Hessians, the more I question what I grew up thinking about our history and legends like this take on a propaganda glow. Kentucky had a lot of Spanish settlements, Celtic, Prussian and Gaelic tribes - some of which have been lost to American history almost entirely but still get mention in the fine print
I was having a peaceful sleep when i dreamed a messenger from god came and told me to go to mongolia i said to the messenger i cannot just get up and go i hsve to go to work in the morning i have responsibility i told the messenger to go tell the man in our guest room he was a doctor lawyer pscychiatrist i told the messenger to tell him to go to mongolia . and went off to sleep mad. The next morning the guest said at breakfast it came to him in the night to go to mongolia so he would be leaving 3 days later he was on his way or already there he went to study mongolian home remedies something i always had an intrest of
Why did she leave her poor dog behind?! I don't even really like dogs, as I'm a cat person. But still... that just seems really wrong.
From courageous, intelligent, and resilient women to women who listen to this account and and wonder why she left her dog !!! Smh. Wow
Because her dog was likely to give her away, of course.
Think real hard and maybe you can come up with the answer 🙄
Your question is a very good one. The dog she left likely led the Indians straight TO her. Would it not have been better to take him?
@@amberlynmarlowe8704 , Good point for sure, and a fair one. I just know how the vindictiveness of American Indians didn't always stop with humans. They would often take out their anger on innocent animals as well, up to, and including "scalping" cats and dogs if they felt the need! So, that's what I have in mind when I feel so sorry for her poor dog. They may well have burned it alive at the stake, and I'm not joking when I say that!
It is apparent that you are of European descent, because in your 'story telling' you never once state that these poor white settlers were/had encroached upon lands that were clearly "Indian Land." They were not settlers they were trespassers. The whites were never victims of Indians, the Indians were the victims of white incursion.
Your bias is typical of most "White History."
Lol, right.
He is reading a book, calm down; no need to bring racism into it. It’s history.