Mary Jemison
(1743-1833)
In 1758, during the French & Indian War, a party of French soldiers and Shawnee took Mary Jemison from her home 3 miles north of here. Although most of her family and neighbors were killed, Mary was adopted by two Seneca women. Jemison lived with the tribe and in 1762 traveled to their tribal home on the Genesee River. She was known as “the White Woman of the Genesee.” At war’s end, she was offered her freedom but chose to stay with the tribe.
Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) and Buchanan Valley Road (State Route 234), on the right when traveling east on Lincoln Highway.
Courtesy hmdb.org
