Abby Byram and Her Father, The Indian Captives. With Some Account of Their Ancestors and a Register of Their Descendants

  • [no publisher or printer; originally Ottumwa, IA: Cook & Algire, 1898], 1953
By [CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE] McELROY, John H. (Rev)
[no publisher or printer; originally Ottumwa, IA: Cook & Algire, 1898], 1953. First Thus. Reprinted with additions;" originally published Ottumwa, Iowa, 1898. Small octavo. Red publisher's cloth gilt; 97pp. A tight, sound copy. Front endpaper has two square sections excised, presumably to remove an earlier owner's name; old tape adhesions and three laid-down clipped obituaries to front pastedown and verso of title page; textually clean and well-preserved; Very Good.

A brief account of the Byrams' 1779 captivity among the Seneca Indians in western Pennsylvania, followed by a substantial genealogical history of the Byrams and their descendants. This edition, published more than a half-century after the original, updates the genealogical tables through the first four decades of the 20th century. Republished without attribution, presumably by a Byram descendant. All editions are highly uncommon; of the present edition, OCLC notes only two locations.

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