Category: Biographies
Although I may have frequently heard the history of my ancestry, my recollection is too imperfect to enable me to trace it further back than my father and mother, whom I have often heard mention the families from whence they originated, as having possessed wealth and honorable...
Conclusion.--Review of her Life.--Reflections on the loss of Liberty.--Care she took to preserve her Health.--Indians' abstemiousness in Drinking, after the French War.--Care of...
11. Chapter 11Death of Hiokatoo.--Biography.--His Birth--Education.--Goes against the Cherokees, &c.--Bloody Battle, &c.--His success and cruelties in the French War.--Battle at Fort Freeland...
8. Chapter 8Life of Ebenezer Allen, a Tory.--He comes to Gardow.--His intimacy with a Nanticoke Squaw.--She gives him a Cap.--Her Husband's jealousy.--Cruelty to his Wife.--Hiokatoo's Manda...
3. Chapter 3She is given to two Squaws.--Her Journey down the Ohio.--Passes a Shawanee town where white men had just been burnt.--Arrives at the Seneca town.--Her Reception.--She is adopted...
2. Chapter 2My education had received as much attention from my parents, as their situation in a new country would admit. I had been at school some, where I learned to read in a book that w...
7. Chapter 7Gen. Sullivan with a large army arrives at Canandaigua.--Indians' troubles.--Determine to stop their march.--Skirmish at Connessius Lake.--Circumstances attending the Execution...
4. Chapter 4She leaves Wiishto for Fort Pitt, in company with her Husband.--Her feelings on setting out.--Contrast between the labor of the white and Indian Women.--Deficiency of Arts among...
5. Chapter 5Indians march to Niagara to fight the British.--Return with two Prisoners, &c.--Sacrifice them at Fall-Brook.--Her Indian Mother's Address to her Daughter.--Death of her Husband...
14. Chapter 14Another Family Affliction.--Her son John's Occupation.--He goes to Buffalo--Returns.--Great Slide by him considered Ominous--Trouble, &c.--He goes to Squawky Hill--Quarrels--Is...
6. Chapter 6Peace amongst the Indians.--Celebrations.--Worship. Exercises.--Business of the Tribes.--Former Happiness of the Indians in time of peace extolled.--Their Morals; Fidelity; Hone...
10. Chapter 10Happy situation of her Family.--Disagreement between her sons Thomas and John.--Her Advice to them, &c.--John kills Thomas;--Her Affliction.--Council. Decision of the Chiefs, &c...
1. Chapter 1Although I may have frequently heard the history of my ancestry, my recollection is too imperfect to enable me to trace it further back than my father and mother, whom I have of...
15. Chapter 15Micah Brooks, Esq. volunteers to get the Title to her Land confirmed to herself.--She is Naturalized.--Great Council of Chiefs, &c. in Sept. 1823.--She Disposes of her Reservati...
12. Chapter 12Being now left a widow in my old age, to mourn the loss of a husband, who had treated me well and with whom I had raised five children, and having suffered the loss of an affect...
9. Chapter 9Mrs. Jemison has liberty to go to her Friends.--Chooses to stay.--Her Reasons, &c.--Her Indian Brother makes provision for her Settlement.--He goes to Grand River and dies.--Her...
13. Chapter 13Mrs. Jemison is informed that she has a Cousin in the Neighborhood, by the name of George Jemison.--His Poverty.--Her Kindness.--His Ingratitude.--Her Trouble from Land Speculat...