Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson

female, deceased (1711)
Concord, princeton, Native American, literary genre, lancaster, puritan…American, Americancaptivitynarrative, Captivity narrative
Mary White Rowlandson was a colonial American woman, who wrote a vivid description of the nearly three months she spent living with Native...
Mary Jemison

Mary Jemison

female, deceased (1833)
Scots-Irish, New York colonial, Pennsylvania colonial, Seneca, Seneca tribe, allegheny…Americancaptivitynarrative, North American colonial women in warfare
Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman and an adopted [Seneca Nation|Seneca]. Mary Jemison was born to Thomas and Jane Jemison aboard the ship...
Jonathan Dickinson

Jonathan Dickinson

male, deceased (1722)
English, dutch, Indian, quaker, German, Port Royal, Jamaica…American, Americancaptivitynarrative
Jonathan Dickinson (1663-1722), was a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica who was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of Florida in 1696, along...
Mary Campbell

Mary Campbell

female, deceased (1801)
Ohio colonial, Pennsylvania colonial, Americancaptivitynarrative, settler, western reserve, American…Native American, North American colonial women in warfare
Mary Campbell (1748-1801) was an American colonial settler, taken captive by Native Americans during the French and Indian War, and believed to...
Hannah Duston

Hannah Duston

female, deceased (1736)
Massachusetts colonial, Dustan, Durstan, tomahawks, Merrimack River, Contoocook River…Americancaptivitynarrative
Hannah Duston (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 - c. 1736) was a colonial New England woman who, having been captured during an Indian raid,...
Ann Eliza Bleecker

Ann Eliza Bleecker

female, deceased (1783)
Women in the American Revolution, Americancaptivitynarrative, correspondent, from New York City, american revolution, American
Ann Eliza Bleecker was an American poet and correspondent who experienced the American Revolution first-hand and recorded it. Her pastoral poetry...
Alexander Henry

Alexander Henry

male, deceased (1824)
CCGS Alexander Henry, pontiac, Native American, Fur trade, Fur trader, Americancaptivitynarrative
Alexander Henry (August 1739-April 4, 1824) was a fur trader and entrepreneur. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what was then British North...

Mercy Harbison

female
from Pennsylvania, Battle of the Wabash, American Revolutionary War, Captivity narrative, Americancaptivitynarrative, American…Native American
Mercy Harbison (birth and death dates unknown) was a young American woman living in the decades immediately following the Revolutionary War, who...