Researching Mary Jemison
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 64 people with the Jemison surname? In that year Jemison was ranked number 3515 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Mary means "bitter" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Mary Jemison on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mary Jemison and the Jemison Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 142 people with the Jemison surname in the UK? Jemison is now ranked number 3908 for popularity in the UK. |
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Mary Jemison
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.
On April 5, 1758, during the French and Indian War, Jemison at age 12 was captured with most of her family in a Shawnee mourning raid in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania. The others of her family were killed. She and an unrelated young boy were adopted by Seneca families. She became fully assimilated, marrying a Delaware (Lenape), and, after his death, a Seneca man. She chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to American colonial culture.
Jemison told her story late in life to an American minister, who wrote it for her. He published it as Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824). It was reprinted in the late 20th century. In 1874 her remains were reinterred near a historic Seneca council house on a private estate, in what is now Letchworth State Park.
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