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

A 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.

"In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long"--OCLC.

"In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long"--OCLC.

A fictional retelling of the early life of Mary Jemison who was captured during the French and Indian War and lived for most of her life with the Seneca Indians.

Contains captioned, archival postcards and photographs that chronicle the history of the Genesee River, New York, and the towns along the river.

An account of the Murder of her Father and his Family; her sufferings; her marriage to two Indians; her troubles with her Children; barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars; the life of her last Husband, &c; and many Historical Facts never before published. Carefully taken from her own words, Nov. 29th, 1823.

Contents: -1- 1780- A Tree Speaks; -2- 1798 - The Amsterdam Company; -3- 1800 - Courting of Susan & Ira; -4- 1834 - The Professor & Sarai; -5- 1811 - Rev. Nathaniel Brown & Freewill Baptist; -6- 1812 - Daniel Brown & Canadian Wheat; -7- 1813 - Harding family; -8- 1815 - Ideman Maples; -9- 1815 - The Surveyors & the land Office of the Genesee; -10- 1815 - Holland Land Company & Joseph Ellicott; -11- 1891 - Benjamin Benneker: Mathematician and Astronomer; -12- 1815 - The Early Rogers Family; -13- 1815 - The Young Surveyor; -14- 1816 - O' Seneca Brother; -15- 1816 - Mingo Seeks Knowledge; -16- 1816 - The Icy Summer of 1816; -17- 1824 - Judge Ira Wait & The Bethany Academy; -18- 1830 - Mingo and the Red Jacket; -19- 1833 - Alexander - Fire & Water; -19- 1835 - Elizabeth Wadsworth; -21- 1836 - The Deer Dance.