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A history of Jonathan Alder: his captivity and life with the Indians

By Alder , Jonathan;Davison , Doyle H.;Alder , Henry Clay;Nelson , Larry Lee

Book information

Publisher
The University of Akron Press
Year
2002
ISBN
1884836801, 9781884836985, 9781884836800, 1884836984
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
529 kB (542033 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
ix, 222 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1773-;Indian captivities -- Ohio;Shawnee IndianIndian captivities--Ohio;Mingo Indians--Social lifJonathan

Description

In the late 1830s or early 1840s, probably at the insistence of his family and friends, Alder composed his memoirs, in which he recounted his life with the Ohio Indians and his experiences as one of the area's earliest pioneers."--Jacket.;In 1795, after the death of his adoptive parents, Alder left the Indians and eventually settled in Pleasant Valley, near present-day Plain City in central Ohio. At the urging of an acquaintance, he traveled to Virginia in 1805, where he had the extraordinary good fortune to find his mother and remaining siblings still living in the neighborhood where he had been captured as a youth. After his reunion, he married a woman from Virginia, returned to Pleasant Valley, and became something of a local celebrity as a result of his childhood adventures. A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians.

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