Merry Neshville

Jemison gave birth to two children, but only one lived on – their little girl who was born1761 died shortly after birth. Soon after giving birth to their second child whom she named after her father ‘Thomas’ who she missed very much, Jemison and her husband Sheninjee started a trip to Sheninjee's motherland in New York along the Genesee River. The journey was tough and long – through the route that they followed, it was approximately 700 miles. Her husband who had taken a different route from Dehgewanus in order to do some trapping and hunting became sick and passed on along the way. She went on with the trip to the strange new land where she lived as a widow.