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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Report from Moses's Creek describes a skirmish at Fort Edward where Lieutenant Van Veighten and several soldiers were killed and scalped by the enemy; Jane McCrea and another woman were also captured and murdered nearby.
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Extract of a letter from Moses's Creek, July 26.
We have just had a brush with the enemy at Fort Edward, in which Lieutenant Van Veighten was most inhumanly butchered and scalped. Two sergeants and two privates were likewise killed and scalped, one of the latter had both his hands cut off. They took a young woman, Jenny M'Crea by name, out of a house at Fort Edward, carried her about half a mile into the bushes, and there killed and scalped her in cold blood. They have killed and scalped another woman near the same place.
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Fort Edward
Event Date
July 26
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lieutenant van veighten killed and scalped; two sergeants killed and scalped; two privates killed and scalped, one with both hands cut off; jenny m'crea killed and scalped; another woman killed and scalped.
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A brush with the enemy at Fort Edward resulted in the butchering and scalping of Lieutenant Van Veighten, two sergeants, and two privates. Jenny M'Crea was taken from a house, carried into the bushes, and killed and scalped. Another woman was killed and scalped nearby.