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Mary Jemison was fifteen years old when a party of Shawnee Indians raided the Jemison farm at Marsh Creek, Pennsylvania, and captured the family and the visiting Manns. After two days of forced marches, Mary and Will Mann were separated from the others, their shoes ceremonially changed for moccasins, and led away. Mary feared she would never see her family again, and later, to her horror, she actually saw their scalps in the Shawnees' hands. When the war party arrived at Fort Duquesne, Mary was given to two sisters of the Seneca tribe to replace their brother killed in battle.
From her capture in 1758 until her death in 1833, Mary never returned to the white people. Adopted by the Senecas, she grew accustomed to Indian ways. In time she married and had seven children. When opportunities finally came to return to the white world, Mary chose to remain with her Seneca family, and in her later years she was a respected member of both the Indian and white communities.
With notes, a bibliography, and a map showing Mary Jemison's journey, this is an absorbing, carefully researched account of the life of a remarkable woman by the author of Sky Pioneers.
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