Mary Jemison Grave & Seneca Council Grounds
The reinterred grave of the White Woman of the Genesee, alongside a 1765 Seneca council house.
Mary Jemison, known in Seneca as Dehgewanus, was captured in Pennsylvania in 1758 at age 12, adopted by a Seneca family, and spent the rest of her life choosing Seneca identity over a return to colonial culture. She received a 17,297-acre land grant at the Gardeau Flats under the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree, making her one of the largest landowners in western New York. She dictated her memoir to James Seaver in 1823 at Whaley's Tavern in Castile; the book went through 30 editions. She was initially buried at the Buffalo Creek Reservation in 1833. In 1874, at her grandchildren's request, William Pryor Letchworth had her remains moved to his estate and reinterred next to the 1765 Seneca Council House he'd relocated from Caneadea. Henry Kirke Bush-Brown's bronze statue, dedicated weeks before Letchworth's death in 1910, marks the grave. Don't miss: Nancy Jemison's cabin, also on the grounds, which belonged to Mary's daughter and was moved here in 1881.
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