A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Subtitle: who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1775, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time : containing 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.  To which is added, an appendix, containing an account of the tragedy at the Devil's Hole, in 1763, and of Sullivan's Expedition, the traditions, manners, customs, &c., of the Indians, as believed and practised at the present day, and since Mrs. Jemison's captivity, together with some anecdotes, and other entertaining matter
By: by James E. Seaver
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Indian captivities; History
Notes: Reprint of the 1824 ed. printed by J. D. Bemis, Canandaigua, N.Y.

"Of this reprint of the first edition of the Narrative of the life of Mary Jemison there were made nine hundred and fifty copies by the Pynson Printers of New York for distribution through Random House."

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Gift of Margaret L. Kempner

Gift; Phyllis Cerf Wagner.