Women / Persons ~ P10879

Massy Herbeson

Alternate Names:

Massy Harbeson

Gender: Female

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Types:

Adventure, physical feat or survival
Pioneer
Prisoner or captive

Note: another example of "Indian atrocity" as told by survivor of a raid near Pittsburgh.She escaped and survived in the woods till she could walk back to settlement.

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Biographies (2 Total)

Captive Scouts: Heroines of the Mohawk Valley Author: William Worthington Fowler . Collection Title: Woman on the American Frontier: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the “Pioneer Mothers of the Republic”. . 1876
Massy Herbeson Author: John Frost . Collection Title: Heroic Women of the West: Comprising Thrilling Examples of Courage, Fortitude, Devotedness, and Self-Sacrifice, among the Pioneer Mothers of the Western Country. 1854