Mary Jemison

Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-mis) (1743–1833) was an American frontierswoman and an adopted Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania from her home along Marsh Creek, and later chose to remain a Seneca. Lornell Mary Jemison was born to Thomas and Jane Jemison aboard the ship William and Mary in the fall of 1743 while en route from what is now Northern Ireland to America. Upon their arrival in America, the couple and their new child joined other Scots-Irish... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]