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Chapters: Mary Campbell, Jonathan Dickinson, Ann Eliza Bleecker, Mary Rowlandson, Mary Jemison, Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams, Hannah Duston, Capture and Rescue of Jemima Boone, Alexander Henry, Frances Slocum, Mercy Harbison, Charles Johnston. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mary Campbell, later Mary Campbell Willford was an American colonial settler, taken captive as a child by Native Americans during the French and Indian War. Later rescued, she is believed to have been the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. Campbell was born in 1747 or 1748. Her family identified themselves as being of Scottish-Irish descent, but it is unknown where she was born. On May 21, 1758, at the age of ten, Campbell was abducted from a place in or near the town of Penn's Creek, probably the town of that name situated in Cumberland (now Snyder) County, Pennsylvania. Her captors were a band of Lenape, a Native American tribe also known as the Delaware. It is widely believed that during her captivity she stayed in the household of, or with the tribe of, a principal chief of the Lenape called Netawatwees, also known by his English name, Newcomer. According to local tradition, this Native American group brought her to a cliff cavity now known as Mary Campbell Cave near the Cuyahoga River in present-day Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. After a reportedly brief residence in the cave, she is said to have moved to a nearby Lenape village, which may have been along the southern bank of the Cuyahoga River not far from the cave, or else on the flat ground directly above the cave. Several lines of family tradition, however, say that Mary lived with the Lenape in a place called Newcomerstown which is further south in eastern Ohio. This tradition tends to confirm Mary Campb...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3133271 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John R. Jewitt, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Jonathan Dickinson, Ann Eliza Bleecker, Mary Rowlandson, Hans Staden, Jackson Johonnet, Mary Draper Ingles, Alexander Henry, James Riley, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, Mercy Harbison, Charles Johnston. Excerpt:Alexander Henry may refer to: A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ann Eliza Bleecker Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752 November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent . Following a New York upbringing, Bleecker married John James Bleecker, a New Rochelle lawyer, in 1769. He encouraged her writings, and helped her publish a periodical containing her works. The American Revolution saw John join the New York Militia , while Ann fled with their two daughters. She continued to write, and what remained of the family returned to Tomhannock following Burgoyne 's surrender. She was saddened and affected by the deaths of numerous family members over the years, and died in 1783. Bleecker's pastoral poetry is studied by historians to gain perspective of life on the front lines of the revolution, and her novel Maria Kittle , the first known Captivity novel , set the form for subsequent Indian Capture novels which saw great popularity after her death. Childhood Ann Eliza Schuyler was born in October 1752, in New York City in the Province of New York . She was the sixth child born to Margareta Van Wyck (1722 1777) and Brandt Schuyler (abt 1716 1752), successful merchants and members of the American Dutch aristocracy. After a long illness, Ann Schuyler's father died just before she was born in 1752. As a child, Ann Schuyler was known for her precocious writing ability, and was often asked to recite her poems, which ranged from sentimental or humorous to sophisticated or satirical . She would often compose impromptu poems at the req... ... Read more

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