Living with the Senecas: A Story about Mary Jemison

Mary Jemison was born in 1743 as her parents emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. When she was fifteen years old, a group of raiding Shawnee Indians and French soldiers captured her and her family. She was the only one to survive. For seventy-five years, she lived among the Seneca Indians who adopted her. She outlived two husbands and bore eight children. She witnessed two wars and a revolution. Even though she could have returned to the white world, she chose to remain with the Senecas and became a loyal and respected member of her tribe.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Bivin Aller
• Assisted by: Laurie Harden (Illustration)
• Publisher: Lerner Classroom
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 141 g
• Series: Creative Minds Biography (Pape; Creative Minds Biography (Pape
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics