A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

CHAPTER I.

Nativity of her Parents.--Their removal to America.--Her Birth.--Parents settle in Pennsylvania.--Omen of her Captivity.

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 ...