Indian captive biography
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison - ThoughtCo
Mary Jemison
Scots-Irish American captured and adopted by Seneca natives (–)
Mary Jemison | |
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Illustration, from an account of missionary activity in upstate New York | |
| Born | Mary Jemison At sea on the Atlantic Ocean |
| Died | September 19, () (aged&#;89–90) Buffalo Creek Reservation |
| Other&#;names | Dehgewänis |
| Known&#;for | adopted Seneca and for her memoir |
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) ( – September 19, ) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having children with them.
In , she published a memoir of her life, a form of captivity narrative.
During the French and Indian War, in spring , Jemison at age 12 was captured with most of her family in a Shawnee raid in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania.[1] Th Cynthia Ann Parker - Wikipedia TAS