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Date of this Version
1838
Citation
NEW-YORK: PERRY AND COOKE, PUBLISHERS, 1838.
Abstract
Wife of the late Mr. Richard Harris, of Franklin County, State of New-York; who, with Mrs. Clarissa Plummer, wife of Mr. James Plummer, were, in the Spring of 1835, (with their unfortunate husbands,) taken prisoners by the Camanche tribe of Indians, while emigrating from said Franklin County (N.Y.) to Texas; and after having been made to witness the tragical deaths of their husbands, and held nearly two years in bondage, were providentially redeemed therefrom by two of their countrymen attached to a company of Santa Fe Fur Traders.
It was the misfortune of Mrs. Harris, and her unfortunate female companion (soon after the deaths of their husbands,) to be separated by, and compelled to become the companions of, and to cohabit with, two disgusting Indian Chiefs, and from whom they received the most cruel and beastIy treatment.
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Comments
Entered according to Act or Congress, in the year 1838, by EBENEZER COOKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.
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