Directory of Mary Jemison Resources

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Mary Jemison, or Dehgewanus, was not born Indian. She was a white teenager when she was captured by the Shawnee, but a Seneca family ransomed her and raised her as their own, and she lived with her adopted people all her life.

Resources in This Category

• A Glimpse of Mary Jemison

  http://www.letchworthparkhistory.com/jem.html
  Biography of the white child adopted into the Seneca tribe. With pictures and links.

• Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s

  http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/47-jem.html
  Excerpts from the Seneca adoptee's narrated autobiography.

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