In the spring of 1758, the French and Indian War set the American frontier on fire. Britain and France fought for control of the Ohio Country, and both sides armed Native nations to raid enemy settlements. Along Marsh Creek in the Pennsylvania backcountry, Scots-Irish immigrant Thomas Jemison farmed with his wife and children. Our subject is their daughter Mary Jemison, fifteen, born on the ship that carried her family from Ireland. She was fair-haired, hardworking, and had never known anything but the farm...
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