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Open book A chapter in the life of one of the pioneers of the Reserve between 1880 and 1899?

Title A chapter in the life of one of the pioneers of the Reserve between 1880 and 1899?

Creator Slocum, Mary Cordelia, b. 1846

Date 1880-1899

Place Indiana--Converse, Indiana--Wabash County, Pennsylvania--Wilkes-Barre, Indiana--Peru

Language English

Subjects Indian captivities, Miami Indians, Women pioneers, Pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life

Summary Ms. account by Mary Cordelia Slocum, probably written during the late 1800s, possibly in Converse, Indiana, of her early life in Peru, Indiana, where she and her family settled in 1846, when she was nine months old. Mary was the grand-niece of Frances Slocum, who, as a five year-old white girl in 1778, had been taken from her home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Delaware Indians. Frances and her brother Isaac (Mary's grandfather) were re-united in 1837, and in 1846, Isaac's son, the Rev. George Remington Slocum (Mary's father), moved his family from Rochester, NY to Peru, Indiana to be near Frances who lived in "Deaf Man's Village" on the Wabash River, where she had gone to live years ago with her husband, Deaf Man, a Miami Indian. Rev. Slocum introduced Christianity to the Miamis there, established a Sunday School, and was able to convince some of the merits of baptism and temperance. Mary's account contains details of her family's history, their pioneer existence in Indiana, and her Indian relatives, including Frances' sons-in-law "Captain" Jean-Baptiste Brouillette and Peter Bondy.

Extent [21] leaves ; 27 cm

Format Sources, Manuscripts, Genealogies

User-Contributed Transcription [In pencil on side of document graff 89-102600][At top of document 665.3] A Chapter in the life of one of the pioneers of the Reserve.I have often been an interested listener to the tryels and experiences of the early setlers. I will try and add my experience, which I hope will not be uninteresting. When this reserve was a new country or inhabited only by Indians. Indian [ aisters?], and wild animals. it was known by the name of the garden of Indiana. We now after it has been settled near sixty years can judge how - properly it was named, land that has been cultivated all those years produses surprising large crops of grain, and vegitabels when we see at our anual fair the exhibits of surprising larg ears of corn huge pumkins and squashes and large crisp stalks of selery. potatoes

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Call Number VAULT folio Graff 5464

BibID 991794958805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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