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

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

A biography, 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.

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

A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.

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.

A biography of Mary Jemison who, at the age of fifteen in 1758, was taken from her family by the Shawnee Indians and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters. Later, when she was free to leave, Jemison chose to remain and live her life as an Indian.