Hapless, Helpless Jane McCrea

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Jane McCrea was mentioned in The Scot In America book (excerpt below):

While the war cloud overhung the land, and the...[Native American] allies of the British king were holding carnival in deeds of bloody cruelty, one of the most pathetic tragedies occurred in the Scottish community first mentioned. 

To the east of Argyle was the colony of New Perth. Le Loup, a...chief in the employ of Burgoyne, commenced here a murderous foray, marking out a bloody trail of some twenty miles through Argyle to Fort Edward, leaving in his path dead bodies of the unsuspecting settlers... . Many a Scotch family on that dreadful route was obliterated...[as was] that unfortunate maiden, whose sad death has been the theme of history, romance and song for more than a century, the sweet-faced, black-haired Scotch lassie, who fell under the tomahawk of her guides while on her way to her lover's arms — poor, hapless, helpless Jane McCrea."