Lord Dunmore's War
"Mad Anne" Bailey was born in Liverpool, England. She first arrived in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, at about the age of 19 after both of her parents died in 1760. In 1765, she married a British soldier named Richard Trotter. He served in Lord Dunmore's War and was killed on October 10, 1774, in an encounter with the Shawnee tribe forces led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant.