Dean, **Elizabeth Angelique

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THE KINKADE FAMILY
1756-1873
By R. W. Quinn

The name of this family is spelled Kincaid, Kinkead and Kinkade. The family is of Scotch origin. It is not known at what date they emigrated to America, but in 1756 they were living in what is now Bath county, Va., but was then part of Augusta county, Va. Some of the name are living in Bath county at this date.

The earliest mention of the family is in the Preston Register. Waddell?s History of Augusta county, Ed. 1902, page 139 states ?From the ?Preston Register? we learn that in September, 1756, the Indians fell upon the settlement on Jackson?s river, at or near Ft. Dinwiddie. They killed 13 people including Ensign Madison, Nicholas Carpenter, James Montgomery, John Bird and George Kinkead, and carried off 28, among them Mrs. Bird and six children, Mrs. Kinkead and three children, Mrs. Poisinger and two children and five children named Carpenter.

The Indians who carried off Mrs. Kinkead compelled her to run the gauntlet with a child in her arms. The child was knocked from her arms and killed by the Indians. Of the other two children carried off with her, one probably died among the Indians, the other was found many years afterwards.

The Indians then took Mrs. Kinkead to a Shawnee village called Chillicothe near the present village of Oldtown on the Little Miami three miles north of Xenia, Ohio, and were making arrangements to burn her when she was stolen away by a French trader named Paul Larsh, who carried her on his back two miles to his boat. He then paddled down the Little Miami and Ohio rivers and up the Mississippi river to the French settlement of Kaskaskia, where he married her. They later moved to western Pennsylvania and then to Ohio. They had a son Charles Larsh, who married a Swearingin, a sister of that Marmaduke Swearingin who was stolen by the Shawnees when but eight years old, married a daughter of their chief and himself became later a chief under the title of Blue Jacket. He is said to have been at the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 when Wayne defeated the Indians. Charles Larsh lived to be nearly one hundred years old and died in Preble county, Ohio. He is the ancestor of the Larsh family of Preble county.
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