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Excerpt from Life of Mary Jemison: Deh-He-Wa-MisDuring this time, Mrs. J emison had been twice married to Indian chiefs, and had a husband and seven children then living. She, too, was nearly two hundred miles from any white settlement, and knew not that she had a white relative or friend' on earth: she, therefore, resolved not to accept of her freedom, but to spend the remainder of her days with the Indians, where she knew she had affectionat...

Excerpt from Of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, in the Year 1755: When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present TimeThe Peace of 1783, and the consequent cessa tion of Indian hostilities and barbarities, returned to their friends those prisoners who had escaped the tomahawk, the gauntlet, and the savage fire, after their having spent many years in captivity, and restor...

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A story of extraordinary courage and human survival as told by the subject herself. In 1753, 15 year old Mary Jemison was captured by Indians along the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years' War between the French, English, and Indian peoples of North America. She was adopted and incorporated into the Senecas. Mary tells the story of how she lived among her captors and how she became a prominent figure in their community.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time.CONTAININGAn Account of the Murder of her Father and his Family, her sufferings, her marriage to two Indians, her troubles with her Children, barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars, the life of her last Husband, &c., and many Hist...

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A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF MRS. MARY JEMISON, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time.CONTAININGAn Account of the Murder of her Father and his Family, her sufferings, her marriage to two Indians, her troubles with her Children, barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars, the life of her last Husband, etc., and many His...

Little woman of great courage'-the life of Mary Jemison Mary Jemison's is a remarkable story. Born in 1743, she was captured by Indians whilst in her teenage years. Her family had emigrated from Ireland and settled on the troubled Pennsylvania frontier in lands controlled by the Iroquois. The Seven Years War broke out and its realisation in the New World, the French and Indian war set the border-lands ablaze. In 1755 a mixed raiding party of S...

Little woman of great courage'-the life of Mary Jemison Mary Jemison's is a remarkable story. Born in 1743, she was captured by Indians whilst in her teenage years. Her family had emigrated from Ireland and settled on the troubled Pennsylvania frontier in lands controlled by the Iroquois. The Seven Years War broke out and its realisation in the New World, the French and Indian war set the border-lands ablaze. In 1755 a mixed raiding party of S...

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Excerpt from Of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, in the Year 1755: When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time The Peace of 1783, and the consequent cessa tion of Indian hostilities and barbarities, returned to their friends those prisoners who had escaped the tomahawk, the gauntlet, and the savage fire, after their having spent many years in captivity, and rest...

Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. She lived to survive two Indian husbands, the ...

Excerpt from Life of Mary Jemison: Deh-He-Wa-Mis The life of Mary Jemison was one of singular vicissitude and trial. Taken captive at the early age of thirteen years, and trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female, she became imbued with their sentiments, and transformed essentially into one of their number. Born on the sea, as it were the child of accident, made an orphan by the tomahawk of the Red man, it was her ...