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Mrs Margaret Campbell Cloyd

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Mar 1764 (aged 56–57)
Amsterdam, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
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In 1764 a party of Indians raided the house of David Cloyd near Amsterdam in Botetourt County, killing his wife, Margaret Cloyd, and son, John. An account of this massacre is given in Waddel's "Annals of Augusta County," written in 1843 by Mrs. Letitia Floyd, wife of Gov. Floyd and daughter of Col. Wm. Preston:

"One day in March 1764 when Col. Wm. Preston had gone to Staunton, Mrs. Preston early in the morning heard two gun shots in quick succession in the direction of David Cloyd's house half a mile distant. Presently Joseph Cloyd rode up on a plow horse and related that the Indians had killed his brother John, had shot at him (the powder burning his shirt) and having gone to the house had probably killed his mother. Mrs. Preston immediately sent a young man to notify the garrison of a small fort on Craig's Creek and then dispatched a white man and two negroes to Mr. Cloyd's. They found Mrs. Cloyd tomahawked in three places but still alive, and conscious. She told of the assault by the Indians, of their getting drunk, ripping up the feather beds and carrying off the money. One of the Indians wiped the blood from her temples with a corn cob saying 'Poor old woman.' She died the next morning."

Excerpt from, Genealogy of the Cloyd, Bayse and Tapp families in America, by Augustus David Cloyd, M.D.
In 1764 a party of Indians raided the house of David Cloyd near Amsterdam in Botetourt County, killing his wife, Margaret Cloyd, and son, John. An account of this massacre is given in Waddel's "Annals of Augusta County," written in 1843 by Mrs. Letitia Floyd, wife of Gov. Floyd and daughter of Col. Wm. Preston:

"One day in March 1764 when Col. Wm. Preston had gone to Staunton, Mrs. Preston early in the morning heard two gun shots in quick succession in the direction of David Cloyd's house half a mile distant. Presently Joseph Cloyd rode up on a plow horse and related that the Indians had killed his brother John, had shot at him (the powder burning his shirt) and having gone to the house had probably killed his mother. Mrs. Preston immediately sent a young man to notify the garrison of a small fort on Craig's Creek and then dispatched a white man and two negroes to Mr. Cloyd's. They found Mrs. Cloyd tomahawked in three places but still alive, and conscious. She told of the assault by the Indians, of their getting drunk, ripping up the feather beds and carrying off the money. One of the Indians wiped the blood from her temples with a corn cob saying 'Poor old woman.' She died the next morning."

Excerpt from, Genealogy of the Cloyd, Bayse and Tapp families in America, by Augustus David Cloyd, M.D.

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