A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison.
Mary Jemison, captive of Native American Indians, whose published life story became one of the most popular in the 19th-century genre of captivity stories. Jemison grew up on a farm near the site of present-day Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On April 5, 1758, a raiding party of French soldiers and.
Mary Jemison was born in 1743 aboard the ship William and Mary in the fall of 1743 while en route from Northern Ireland to America. Upon their arrival in America, the couple and their new child joined other Scots-Irish immigrants and headed west from Philadelphia to what was then the western frontier (now central Pennsylvania).
Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan women living in Lancaster, Massachusetts with her husband Joseph, and their three children, when the Indians captured them. The Indians killed Rowlandson’s sister and her youngest child. In 1758, fifteen year old Mary Jemison was captured by a Shawnee and French raiding party that attacked her farm.
Mary Jemison was a Scots-Irish immigrant girl, the most famous Indian captive. Following the murder of Mary's family and her capture in 1758 by a group of Shawnee Indians and Frenchmen, she was adopted and given an Indian name by two Seneca women who had suffered the loss of a brother in the war.
There are examples of divides in social classes in every time period. Flash all the way back to 1620, 397 years ago, and it’s even present all the way back then. In the narrative, “The Life of Mary Jemison”, and the Hannah Dustin poem, there are multiple examples of divides between the Europeans and Indians.
For some strange reason after reading the editors introduction to the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Jemison, It reminded me of the beginning of the Titanic. I remember being a little girl watching one hundred year old Rose walk in to a salvage ship to tell her story, I thought it was so cool, having history come to life by having it told by someone.
Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War (1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party.