(AMERICAN INDIANS) [Panther Abraham] A Very Surprising Narra

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) ["Panther, Abraham."] A Very Surprising Narrative, of a Young Woman, Discovered in a Rocky-Cave, After Having Been Taken by the Savage Indians. 12 pages. 12mo, stitched; edge wear, moderate dampstaining, closed tear on final leaf; uncut. Jaffrey, NH, circa 1814

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An apparently fictitious narrative of an Albany woman who was captured by Indians in 1777, killed her captor with a hatchet, and then lived in an isolated cave for nine years. First published in Bickerstaff's 1788 almanac. Ayer, Indian Captivity Supplement 94; Sabin 93905.