Steele - Local Author Dr. Theodore Corbett presents "White Indian Mary Jemison Meets the Continental Army"
Join us for a presentation by local author and historian Dr. Theodore Corbett about white Indian Mary Jemison, well known as a Seneca captive who was adopted as a youngster and grew up preferring their ways. She lived through the Revolutionary War, feeding corn meal cakes to John Butler and Joseph Brandt, Loyalist leaders, when they passed through her village leading forays to the east. When the Sullivan-Clinton Continental army approached her village, she was forced to flee into the forest while her home was destroyed, so she decided to take her children and go to the abandoned village of Gadaho, where she was hired to husk corn by escaped black slaves, so that her family was comfortable…
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