Mary Campbell was an American colonial settler, taken captive as a child by Native Americans during the French and Indian War, and believed to have been the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. She was born in 1747 or 1748Pennsylvania Gazette, October 1764. Since, according to family tradition, Mary's parents were Scotch-Irish, her place of birth was either Northern Ireland or America depending on whether her family immigrated before or after her birth.On May 21, 1758,Pennsylvania Gazette, October 1764 at the age of ten years, Campbell was abducted from a place in or near the town of Penn's Creek, probably the town of that name situated in Cumberland (now Snyder) County, Pennsylvania. Her captors were a band of Lenape, an American Indian group also called the Delaware.Pennsylvania Gazette, October 1764 It is widely believed that during her captivity she stayed in the household of, or with the tribe of, a principal chief of the Lenape called Netawatwees, also known by his English name, Newcomer.Bouquet Papers, British Museum, p. 317-318 Clinton A. Weslager, The Delaware Indians: a History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990) p. 243. According to local tradition, this Native American group brought her to a cliff cavity now known as Mary Campbell Cave near the Cuyahoga River in present-day Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.Karl H. Grismer, Akron and Summit County History, Higginson Book Co, 1994. ASIN: B0006P5YLE After a reportedly brief residence in the cave, she is said to have moved to a nearby Lenape village,Karl H. Grismer, Akron and Summit County History, Higginson Book Co, 1994. ASIN: B0006P5YLE which may have been along the southern bank of the Cuyahoga River not far from the cave, or else on the flat ground directly above the cave..