Taken in a raid on her family’s Pennsylvania farm in 1758, when she was about fifteen, Mary Jemison was adopted by two Seneca sisters and lived the rest of her long life among them in the Genesee valley of New York. In old age she told her story to James Seaver: two marriages, her children, the Revolution, and the chance to return that she turned down.
One of the best-known captivity narratives, and a rare view of Seneca life through the eyes of a woman who chose to stay. Download the free EPUB.