He had a relationship with Mary Mason.
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Shadrack was killed while running from Indians at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvannia.
Shadrack Muchmore was first heir to the ?Sharpen Estate? in Canada but because of his untimely death he never possessed it. Some years later his son?s did possess the estate. Shadrack and his wife Mary, and their children settled on a 100 acre farm near Carlisle in Cumberland County, Pennsylva-nia.
This was a land grant warrented to Shadrack for serving in the French and Indian War. Sometime later he received a grant of 200 acres on the Ohio River in West Virginia. After Shadrack died,1 Mary married a second time and had another child. The family continued to clear the land. One day while they were at work, Indians surprised them and killed Mary?s husband and one of the boys. The other two managed to hide and watched the Indians as they went to the cabin, set it on fire, killed Mary?s tiny baby by slinging his head against a tree, then
left with their mother, Mary and their teen-age sister as their captives. The boys followed along at what they hoped would be a safe distance for a day or two, hoping that eventually they could rescue their mother and sister. But they were also captured.
The Indians kept all of them around Detroit and after a couple of years the boys, Jonathan and William were ?bought from the Indians by some wealthy British (this was during the American Revolution) who took them from Canada to England and had them educated. Later the boys returned to Canada and obtained the entailed ?Sharpen Estate? which was due to be inherited by Shadrack Muchmore, married there and became very influential families. A park and a street in Montreal both bear the name Muchmore. Mary was kept captive for eight years and the story went on to say they believed the daughter died in captivity, and Mary, after her release, made her way Canada and lived there with her sons.
She tried for years to find the rest of her family, but when the militia came upon the dwelling, they found her dead husband and son and the cabin burned and the story got back to the setsettlement that all had died. They found two letters in old Fort Pitt when it was being dismantled. They were from Mary to her son Samuel begging pitifully for some word from him or whoever received the letter, for word of the fate of her family left behind in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but she was due for disappointment for those letters, written a year or so apart, lay unopened all those years. The soldiers did not have time to deliver mail, and the few remaining MUCHMORES, though they knew the fate of their kin and did not travel the 175 to 200 miles to ask for mail that they did not expect. The married daughter, Sarah, did learn a little about the fate of her mother when a (then friendly) Indian stopped by her home. Mary had a beautiful, very long black hair and the Indian told Sarah that her mother did not die. When he saw her last, about a year before, she was well but very sad and that her long black
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