only roused occasionally, to become the fearful topic of the fireside.

It is presumed that at this time there are but few native Americans that
have arrived to middle age, who cannot distinctly recollect of sitting in
the chimney corner when children, all contracted with fear, and there
listening to their parents or visitors, while they related stories of
Indian conquests, and murders, that would make their flaxen hair nearly
stand erect, and almost destroy the power of motion.

At the close of the Revolutionary war; all that part of the State of
New-York that lies west of Utica was uninhabited by white people, and few
indeed had ever passed beyond Fort Stanwix, except when engaged in war
against the Indians, who were numerous, and occupied a number of large
towns Between the Mohawk river and lake Erie.

Sometime elapsed after this event, before the country about the lakes and
on the Genesee river was visited, save by an occasional land speculator,
or by defaulters who wished by retreating to what in those days was deemed
almost the end of the earth, to escape the force of civil law.

At length, the richness and fertility of the soil excited emigration, and
here and there a family settled down and commenced improvements in the
country which had recently been the property of the aborigines. Those who
settled near the Genesee river, soon became acquainted with "The White
Woman," as Mrs. Jemison is called, whose history they anxiously sought,
both as a matter of interest and curiosity. Frankness characterized her
conduct, and without reserve she would readily gratify them by relating
some of the most important periods of her life.

Although her bosom companion was an ancient Indian warrior, and