[2] On 30 July (or 8 July, according to John P. Hale[1] and Letitia Preston Floyd[3]: 79–109 [Note 1]), 1755, during the French and Indian War, a band of Shawnee warriors (then allies of the French) raided Draper's Meadow and killed six settlers, including Mary's mother and her infant niece.

[6][2] They took five captives, including Mary and her sons George and Thomas, her sister-in-law Bettie Robertson Draper, and her neighbor Henry Lenard (or Leonard).

[11] William met a man named Baker who had been held captive by the Shawnee at Lower Shawneetown, and had known Thomas and his adoptive father.

[1]: 115 [12]: 86–88  William hired Baker to find Thomas (now living at Pickaway Plains on the upper Scioto River) and bring him back to Ingles Ferry.

[13] In 1768, William Ingles and Baker traveled together to Lower Shawneetown and persuaded Thomas, now 17, to return with them to Virginia.

[15] On 7 May, 1774, Thomas Ingles was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Fincastle County Militia[16]: 1  and served under Colonel William Christian in Lord Dunmore's War against the Shawnee.

[28]: 75 [29]: 51  William's will of 6 September 1782, dictates: "Son Thomas a tract of land 1000 [acres] on the Blue Stone, known by the name of Absolem's Valley, and a slave.

[31] On 3 August 1786, Thomas served as a commissioner for the State of Franklin,[32]: 346  together with William Cocke, Alexander Outlaw, and Samuel Wear, for the Treaty of Coyatee, in which the State of Franklin forced Corntassel, Hanging Maw, John Watts, and the other Overhill Cherokee leaders to cede to the State of Franklin the remaining land between the boundary set by the Treaty of Dumplin Creek and the Little Tennessee River.