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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... c . CHAPTER XII . - Lay - Brothers . - Catalina . - Detached Indians CHAPTER XIII . - Progress of Knowledge . - Indian Manners 20 29 32 32 35 35 39 39 44 ទ ឆ ៩ ៖ 52 57 61 66 PAGE . CHAPTER XIV . - Marriage of Miss Schuyler.
... Indians was first diminished 111 CHAPTER XXVI . - Peculiar Attractions of the Indian Mode of Life . -Account of a Settler who resided some time among them ..... ......... CHAPTER XXVII . - Indians only to be attached by being converted ...
... Indians . - The Superintendent CHAPTER XL . - General Abercrombie . - Lord Howe 156 160 164 .... 168 171 175 CHAPTER ... Indian War ...... 214 CHAPTER L. - Pondiac . - Sir Robert D ........ 218 , 223 CHAPTER LI . - Death of Captain ...
... Indians , was originally settled by a Dutch colony , which came from Holland , I think , in the time of Charles the Second . Finding the country to their liking , they were followed by others more wealthy and better informed . Indeed ...
... Indians were numerous and powerful along all the river ; but they consisted of wan- dering families , who , though they established some sort of local boundaries for distinguishing the hunting grounds of each tribe , could not be said ...
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