Mary Jemison
Deceased Person
1743 – 1833
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Who was Mary Jemison?
Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman who was adopted in her teens by the Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek. She became fully assimilated and later chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to British colonial culture.
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