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frontiersman , settler , and landowner michael cresap 's militia '' caudy dulany margaret caudy wood mary caudy kinman sarah caudy ` hancher children : '' ' david caudy ann 15 march 1784 1707 near states present-day capon bridge , west virginia , united netherlands french and indian war 1707 hartford west virginia , united states 39 17.167 n 078 26.218 bealer w inline farm christian church road capon bridge , mary hutchinson mrs. james mccoy james caudy
 james caudy
james caudy

james caudy -lrb- 1707 -- march 15 , 1784 -rrb- was an american frontiersman , settler , and landowner in the ridge-and-valley appalachians of the colony of virginia -- present-day west virginia .
caudy was born in the netherlands , immigrated to the thirteen colonies in the 1730s , and settled within the cacapon river valley near present-day capon bridge in hampshire county .
as early as 1741 , caudy was associated with the arrangement and development of transportation routes throughout present-day hampshire county .
caudy twice hosted george washington ; first during his surveying expedition in 1748 and again upon washington 's 1750 return to the cacapon river valley .
caudy participated in the french and indian war and is best known for having purportedly defended himself from a band of native american fighters on caudy 's castle -- a sandstone outcrop that now bears his name .
according to tradition , caudy used his long rifle barrel to push his native american attackers off the rock into the cacapon river below .
in his later life , caudy became involved in a land dispute with john capper that was resolved by thomas fairfax , 6th lord fairfax of cameron in november 1762 .
caudy died in 1784 and was interred on his property south of present-day capon bridge .
according to local tradition , caudy was buried with a native american on either side of him , while another tradition says caudy was buried with his horse .
