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Captured By Indians: Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian by Mary Jemison In 1753, fifteen year old Mary Jemison was captured by Indians along the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years’ War between the French, English, and Indian peoples of North America. She was adopted and incorporated into the Senecas, a familiar practice among Iroquois and other Indian peoples seeking to replace a lost sibling or spouse. Mary married and raised a family in the decades before and after the American Revolution; many captives, once adopted and integrated into an Indian community, refused the opportunity to return home, finding life in Indian society more rewarding. In 1823 Mary Jemison related her life story to James Seaver, a doctor who lived near her home in western New York. Seaver’s story of “the white woman of the Genessee,” as she became known, sold over 100,000 copies in 1824. I had been in that situation hut a few minutes, before all the squaws in the town came in to see me. “Oh our brother! Source: James E.

Online Historical Newspapers Have you ever wished you could find links to all the online historical newspapers in one place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read? This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers. There's a lot of work that needs to be done to this site, and with all the digitized newspapers becoming available, it's likely this project will be a continuous work-in-progress! My goal is to first list all I can find for the United States and then go on to add newspapers for other countries. These links include both free sites and subscription database websites. Expand your research by checking out the Online Historical Directories Website here. Report errors and broken links or send suggestions for new listings here.

People - Chief Cornplanter Pennsylvania's one surviving Indian community lived until 1964 on the Cornplanter Tract in Warren County, northwest Pennsylvania. In that year the newly constructed Kinzua Dam was shut, flooding the Allegheny Reservoir and submerging the community's physical remains. The Cornplanter Tract was not an Indian reservation. It was a grant of land made in 1791 to Cornplanter, a chief of the Seneca Nation, and to his heirs by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Through this gift, the government of Pennsylvania expressed its gratitude to Cornplanter for his Indian diplomacy in the early years of American independence. Most numerous and powerful of all the league members were the westernmost, the Senecas. The Indians' hostility was not without cause. We wish our children to be taught the same principles by which your fathers were guided. In 1798 the Quakers accepted Cornplanter's invitation to teach his people. After 1812, however, Cornplanter became disillusioned with the Americans. Merle H.

List of online newspaper archives This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Some newspapers do not allow access to the OCR-converted text until it is proofread. Older newspapers are still in image format, and newer newspapers are available as full text that can be cut and pasted. Most text is in ASCII, some are using Unicode for diacritical marks not available in ASCII. Some local public libraries subscribe to certain online newspaper archives. Afghanistan[edit] DSpace - Afghanistan Digital Repository & Afghanistan Digital Collections (1873- ) Free in Pasto, Dari and English Algeria[edit] Azerbaijan[edit] Argentina[edit] Armenia[edit] Australia[edit] Austria[edit] Bangladesh[edit] Belgium[edit] Brazil[edit] Bulgaria[edit] [edit]

INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 2, Treaties Vol. II, Treaties Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Nov. 11, 1794. | 7 Stat., 44. | Proclamation, Jan. 21, 1795. Page 34 A Treaty between the United States of America, and the Tribes of Indians called the Six Nations. The President of the United States having determined to hold a conference with the Six Nations of Indians, for the purpose of removing from their minds all causes of complaint, and establishing a firm and permanent friendship with them; and Timothy Pickering being appointed sole agent for that purpose; and the agent having met and conferred with the Sachems, Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nations, in a general council: Now, in order to accomplish the good design of Page 35 this conference, the parties have agreed on the following articles; which, when ratified by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, shall be binding on them and the Six Nations. Page 36 NOTE. Page 37 Timothy Pickering, [L. Onoyeahnee, his x mark, [L. Witnesses:

Finding Newspapers at Penn - Research Guide The Penn libraries subscribe to newspapers from around the world. The libraries also have access to extensive collections of older newspapers in print and on microfilm here on campus, and at area libraries. In addition, we subscribe to many online databases that aggregate newspapers and, in some cases, index them. An attempt has been made to include in this guide the most useful print and online resources for finding newspapers. However, in some cases, the most useful source will be the reference librarian. Contents... Finding Newspapers Generally Finding Newspapers Through Franklin When you know the title(s) of the newspaper(s) you want to see: Do a Title search in Franklin for the name of the newspaper, e.g. new york times. When you don't know the title(s) of the newspaper(s) you need: To identify newspapers from a particular city or country held by the Penn libraries, try a Subject search in Franklin with the word "newspapers" and the name of the country or city. Willing's press guide.-.

Iroquois Bio [Editor's Note: The Senecas sold most of their remaining lands for $100,000 and individual cash payments to specific Seneca leaders. Held at Geneseo-then known as Big Tree-NY by Robert Morris with representatives of the United States present, the Treaty reserved twelve tracts of land. Two of these reservations - Squawkie Hill and Gardeau, were in the present boundaries of the Park, another, Caneadea, was a few miles south. The rest of the lands were now open to settlement. Robert Morris, probably the richest man in America when he financed the Revolutionary War, was an old man in extremely dire straits when he squared off against the Seneca Indians negotiating the infamous Big Tree Treaty. Morris, who owned all of Western New York at one time, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a confidante of George Washington and a very rich man. After the war, he turned to land speculation with an overriding passion and it became his downfall. The negotiations were stalemated.

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections kahquah | Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time This entry is about two streets in South Buffalo: Indian Church Road and Indian Orchard Place. The streets are located on the border between Buffalo and West Seneca in the southeastern part of the City. Indian Church Road runs from Seneca Street into West Seneca towards Mineral Springs Road. Indian Orchard Place is a small street off of Buffam Avenue, near Seneca Street and Indian Church Road. This part of Buffalo was the location of an Indian Village. They hunted game around the salt licks near the Mineral Springs, worshiped in the Indian Church near Seneca Street and picked apples, cherries and plums in the Indian Orchard. Seneca Mission Church Around 1804, missionaries came to live with the Indians, shortly after the Village of Buffalo was established. they built a school where they taught the English language, agriculture, reading and writing; they also taught the women how to knit and sew. 1880 Erie County Atlas depicting Seneca Indian Church Ground and Cemetery location. Sources:

How To Search GenealogyBank Newspaper Records Websites now make it easy to search through millions of old newspaper pages. GenealogyBank has one of the largest collections of digitized US newspapers: more than 7,000 titles from all 50 states, dating from 1690 to the present. They’re in two collections: Newspaper Archives 1690-Current Recent Newspaper Obituaries 1977-Today Another collection, Historical Documents, contains the American State Papers and the US Serial Set, both of which you can search for free on the Library of Congress website. (GenealogyBank lists military records and “Revolutionary and Civil War Pension Requests” among its historical documents. GenealogyBank Search Techniques 1. The search form at the top of GenealogyBank’s home page lets you search all its collections at once, or scroll down to select a specific collection. Try adding a middle name or initial, and searching with first and middle initials, such as J. The Advanced Search lets you add a range of years, such as 1880 to 1910, or July 1880 to Jan. 1910.

Forbes' Historic Trail John Armstrong (1717-1795) From The War that Made America Born in Ireland, John Armstrong settled in the backcountry of Pennsylvania with many other Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants. He was an accomplished surveyor and, when the Pennsylvania Regiment was finally created in the aftermath of Braddock’s defeat, Armstrong was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel, commanding one of the three battalions. Colonel Armstrong worked feverishly in the summer of 1756 to maintain a line of defense along the frontier against an increasing number of Indian raids. This defensive line proved ineffective, however, as the enemy would either bypass the loadstone forts erected to protect the backcountry, or elude the troops patrolling between those outposts. After the raid on Fort Granville, Armstrong recognized the futility of trying to maintain this defensive perimeter and proposed to Governor Robert Morris that a punitive strike be made against the raiders. Top Thomas Barton (1730-1780) Robert Kirkwood

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