Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionAppleton, 1846 - 295 páginas With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, as she was called, spent several years of her childhood in America, where her father was in the military service, returning to Scotland in 1770, at the age of fifteen. The “ American lady ” who is here described is Mrs. Schuyler of Albany, an aunt of Gen. Schuyler, a lady of great character and intelligence, in whose household the young Scotch girl was for some time on a very intimate footing. The volume shows a remarkable tenacity of memory, as well as a graceful and animated pen. The first forty-three chapters (out of sixty-six) are of a general nature, giving a lively sketch of society and manners among the Dutch families at Albany, and a somewhat detailed history of the Schuyler family. The rest of the volume describes the author's own experiences, chiefly at Oswego, where her father's regiment was stationed, and afterwards at Albany. |
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... French and English languages soon acquired a sway over their less enlightened fellow - settlers . Of this number were the Schuylers and Cuylers , two families among whom intel- lect of the superior kind seemed an inheritance , and whose ...
... French , whose emissaries in these wild regions had even then begun to style us , in effect , a nation of shop- keepers ; and to impress the tribes dwelling within their boun- daries with vast ideas of the power and splendor of their ...
... French influence ; and to form a lasting league , offensive and defensive , with that great queen whose mild majesty had so deeply impressed them ; and with the mighty people whose kindness had gratified and whose power had astonished ...
... French Huguenots , rather above the middling rank , contributed not a little : those conscientious exiles had more knowledge and piety than any other class of the inhabitants ; their religion seemed indeed endeared to them , by what ...
... French- man , and did not seem to inspire much veneration among the Albanians . They imagined , or had heard , that he retired to that solitude in remorse for some fatal duel in which he had been engaged ; and considered him as an ...
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