Does your tree include a Traver family, the
husband of which was killed by Indians during
the Revolution, leaving a wife and several
daughters, one named Elizabeth? Mother and daughters were present at the Cherry Valley massacre by a band of renegade Senecas,
hiding on the wooded ridge after receiving a warning from the Indian leader John Brandt, ally of the British. Husband may have been killed in this massacre or in an earlier incident.The family were probably Tories. Elizabeth lived
in Logan(-ton)(-ville),PA, and married John C. Bury there ca. 1797. They emigrated to
Upper Canada, now Ontario, after a daughter
drowned in their millpond at Buttermilk Falls. I have extensive files on their descendants but need info on parents, siblings, of Eliz Traver.
Bill Higgins, descendant of John Eliz Traver.