Mary Jemison: Native American Captive By E. F. Abbott
Mary Jemison: Native American Captive By E. F. Abbott
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Meet the colonial girl who was adopted into the Seneca Nation.
What happens when everything you know is suddenly ripped away? This is the fate of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758.
Mary is captured by a band of French and Shawnee warriors during the French and Indian War. She is led deep into the woods, then traded to the Seneca and taken in by two sisters. Renamed Dehgewanus, she finds her place among the Seneca and embarks on a new way of life. But when given the choice, will Mary return to the world she once knew or remain with her adopted family?
This thrilling story is an eyewitness account of a girl torn between two worlds in colonial America.
Soft cover.
Learn more about remainder marks HERE
Meet the colonial girl who was adopted into the Seneca Nation.
What happens when everything you know is suddenly ripped away? This is the fate of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758.
Mary is captured by a band of French and Shawnee warriors during the French and Indian War. She is led deep into the woods, then traded to the Seneca and taken in by two sisters. Renamed Dehgewanus, she finds her place among the Seneca and embarks on a new way of life. But when given the choice, will Mary return to the world she once knew or remain with her adopted family?
This thrilling story is an eyewitness account of a girl torn between two worlds in colonial America.
Soft cover.