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  2. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...

  3. History of the Acadians - Wikipedia

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    The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-73961-7. (published in the United States as "The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph" at Google Books) Atkins, Thomas B. (1869). "Papers Relating to the Acadian French, 1714-1755". Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia ...

  4. Draper's Meadow massacre - Wikipedia

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    In 1761, Mary's sister-in-law Bettie Robertson Draper was found and ransomed by her husband John Draper after six years in captivity. In 1768, Mary's son Thomas Ingles was ransomed and returned to Virginia at the age of 17. [19] One source states that another captive, Mary's neighbor Henry Leonard, later escaped, although no details are given.

  5. Mary Draper Ingles - Wikipedia

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    Mary Draper Ingles was born in 1732 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George and Elenor (Hardin) Draper, who had immigrated to America from County Donegal, Ireland in 1729. [6] [7] Between 1740 and 1744, the Draper family moved to the western frontier of Virginia, settling in Pattonsburg on the James River. According to John P. Hale, in 1744 ...

  6. John of Matha - Wikipedia

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    In gratitude for her assistance, John of Matha honored Mary with the title of "Our Lady of Good Remedy." Devotion to Mary under this ancient title is widely known in Europe and Latin America, and the Catholic Church celebrates her feast day on 8 October. Our Lady of Good Remedy is often depicted as the Virgin Mary handing a bag of money to John ...

  7. Our Lady of Pellevoisin - Wikipedia

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    On that day's apparition, the Virgin told Faguette 'You have been working for me'. The final and culminating vision took place on Friday 8 December 1876, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. [6] Model of the Scapular of the Sacred Heart revealed by the Virgin Mary to Estelle Faguette in Pellevoisin.

  8. Wigratzbad - Wikipedia

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    Since 1988, Wigratzbad has also hosted the International Seminary of St. Peter, the first seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (F.S.S.P.). [2]The Fraternity was founded in response to the Society of St. Pius X's illicit 1988 Ecône consecrations; several priests and seminarians of that Society wished to remain a traditional Catholic society and offer the Mass and other sacraments ...

  9. Simon Girty - Wikipedia

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    Simon Girty, "the White Savage," etching from Thomas Boyd's 1928 book by the same title. [9]Simon Girty lived with Guyasuta of the Mingo and Seneca for seven years. He was returned to the British in November 1764, during a prisoner exchange after the end of Pontiac's War, but upon going back to Pennsylvania he immediately returned to his former tribe, who had to convince him to leave.