genesee river valley (pa. and n.y.)

A brief biography of Mary Jemison, the daughter of Irish immigrants who arrived in America in 1743, was captured by a Shawnee war party at the age of twelve, and was subsequently given to the Seneca tribe with whom she chose to remain the rest of her life.

Presents Mary Jemison's account of her life with the Seneca Indians as told to upstate New York doctor James Everett Seaver in 1824.

In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture.

Tells the story of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped by the Seneca Indians and adopted into their tribe, becoming the wife of a warrior chief, and experiencing the tragedies and triumphs of life in the eighteenth-century Seneca nation.

Presents stories of the people and events of the Genesee River Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Mary Jemison's account of her life with the Senca Indians as told to upstate New York doctor James Everett Seaver in 1824.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.