Gnesee set during the American War of Independnce by Juliet Waldron
Genesee by Juliet Waldron Genesee begins in 1761, when Mynheer Hendrik van Cortlandt, younger son of a wealthy, powerful Dutch family, leaves his resentful bride to travel down the Mohawk River to Genesee. He is in pursuit of his fourteen-year-old sister, Alyda, who eloped with Black Wolf, a Senecca brave. His sister dead, he returns to the frontier with her infant daughter, and a load of beaver pelts. The novel moves forward to The War for American Independence, which has a profound influence on the baby, when she is a beautiful girl named Genesee aka Jenny. Ms Waldron’s story which moves the heroine from privileged life in Albany New York, to the frontier, and a Senecca camp. She experiences luxury, extreme hardship, captivity, and prejudice because she is a ‘half breed’. When Jenny and Captain Alexander Dunbar meet, they cannot foresee many severe trials that lie ahead. From the beginning to the end of this novel I hoped it would ...