From the name of Mary's first son you can infer that she - A expected her child to speak only English. B was still upset about having an Indian husband. C did not have a strong grasp of the Seneca language. D still remembered her father with fondness.

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From the name of Mary's first son you can infer that she - A expected her child to speak only English. B was still upset about having an Indian husband. C did not have a strong grasp of the Seneca language. D still remembered her father with fondness.

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Marisa Liu · Answer 1

Mary Jemison named her first son Thomas after her father, D she still remembered her father with fondness.

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As written by Seaver, Mary said that she gave her son the name Thomas "to commemorate the name of my much lamented father, i called my son Thomas Jemison." The life of Mary Jemison was written by James Everett Seaver in the year 1824 and by 1918, the twentieth edition of the book was published.

Mary Jemison was an Indian captive whose origin is Scot-Irish, she was captured in the year 1758 after the murder of her family by a group of Shawnee Indians and Frenchmen. She was then given a Seneca name and adopted the lifestyle of the Indians in other to survive. She got accustomed to Indian way of living and was loved by them.

Mary had eight children from two husbands, her first child was a girl, and her second child and first son is Thomas, she named after her Father.