Hannah’s Tale – Today In Southern History
25 July 1757
25 July 1757
On this date in 1757…
A war party of more than sixty Shawnee warriors attacked farms along the James River in Virginia. At the Dennis family farm they killed Joseph Dennis and his child, then took his young wife, Hannah as a slave along with several other captive white women to the Shawnee village of Chillicothe. After some time, Hannah Dennis gained the trust of the Shawnee and they began to accept her. She eventually escaped and her tale became well known throughout the American colonies. Since that time, numerous novels and movies have been inspired by Hannah Dennis’s ordeal.
Other Years:
1609 – Admiral George Somers scuttled the storm-damaged flagship of the London Company, “Sea Venture” in eastern Bermuda. Survivors construct two new ships and resupply the endangered Jamestown colony.
1729 – North Carolina became an English royal colony.
1775 – Maryland issued paper currency depicting King George III trampling the Magna Carta
1805 – Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital.
1861 – The Crittenden Resolution, which called for the War of Northern Aggression to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1940 – John Sigmund began an 89 hour 46 minute, 292 mile swim of the Mississippi River from St. Louis to Caruthersville, MO
1979 – A Texas state record of 109 cm (43”) of rain fell at Alvin, Texas.
1983 – The first non-human primate, a baboon, was conceived in a lab dish in San Antonio, TX
1992 – The US Army refused to overturn the 127-year-old conviction against Dr. Samuel Mudd for treating John Wilkes Boothe’s broken leg
1997 – Howard Stern was fired from KEGL radio in Dallas, TX
2020 – Hurricane Hanna, the first of the 2020 season, made landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast as a Cat 1 storm
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