Indian Captive
Indian Captive

Author: Lois Lenski

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1453227520

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A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Author: James E. Seaver

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0806148918

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Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. She lived to survive two Indian husbands, the births of eight children, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the canal era in upstate New York. In 1833 she died at about age ninety.

Mary Jemison: Native American Captive
Mary Jemison: Native American Captive

Author: E. F. Abbott

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1250080320

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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. How does Mary find the will to carry on? During the French and Indian War, Mary is captured by a band of French and Shawnee warriors and led deep into the woods. After her family is killed, Mary is 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? Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History. This title has Common Core connections.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter
The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Author: Caroline B. Cooney

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0375899235

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Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?

Captured by Indians
Captured by Indians

Author: James Everett Seaver

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780208023681

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Recounts the life of Mary Jemison, who after her capture by the Shawnee was adopted into a Seneca family and lived voluntarily with the Indians for the rest of her life, as she would have told it to her biographer.

Mary Jemison
Mary Jemison

Author: Rayna M. Gangi

Publisher: Clear Light Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780940666580

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Tells the story of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped by the Seneca Indians and adopted into their tribe, becoming the wife of a warrior chief, and experiencing the tragedies and triumphs of life in the eighteenth-century Seneca nation.

The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians
The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians

Author: Mary Jemison

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2002-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761410102

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The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

Captured by the Indians
Captured by the Indians

Author: Frederick Drimmer

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0486130738

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Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes, and adoption into Indian tribes.

Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington

Author: E. F. Abbott

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1250080347

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What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message? That's sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington’s urgent mission. In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen, and everyone in the family is dedicated to the Patriot cause. Using spy tactics and codes, the Ludingtons gather intelligence, hoping to stay one step ahead of their enemies. When British troops raid nearby Danbury, Connecticut, Sybil gallops through the night to call out her father's men. But the journey is dangerous for a girl who’s all alone. With obstacles at every turn, will she make it in time to stop the British? Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History. This title has Common Core connections.

Mary Jemison
Mary Jemison

Author: Rayna M. Gangi

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-06-17

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781548183530

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Mary Jemison is the true story of a Scot-Irish girl captured by the Shawnee and French and gifted to two sisters of the Seneca nation. This version of the true story is the only one sanctioned by the Seneca Nation as being true and includes an epilogue by Peter Jemison, Mary's great grand nephew. Mary Jemison is a classic story of a legendary woman.