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Mary Jemison
Scots-Irish American captured and adopted by Seneca natives (1743–1833)
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Illustration, from an 1892 account of missionary activity in upstate New York | |
| Born | Mary Jemison 1743 At sea on the Atlantic Ocean |
| Died | September 19, 1833(1833-09-19) (aged 89–90) Buffalo Creek Reservation |
| Other names | Dehgewänis |
| Known for | adopted Seneca and for her memoir |
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having children with them.
In 1824, she published a memoir of her life, a form of captivity narrative.
During the French and Indian War, in spring 1755, Jemison at age 12 was captured with most of her family in a Shawnee raid in