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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... Nations , or Mohawk Indians.— Building of the Fort at Albany . - John and Philip Schuyler ........ ΡΔΟΣ 13 17 20 20 CHAPTER III . - Colonel Schuyler persuades four Sachems to accom- pany him to England . - Their Reception and Return ...
... Nations , or Mohawk Indians . - Building of the Fort at Albany . - John and Philip Schuyler . On the Mohawk River , about forty miles distant from Al- bany , there subsisted a confederacy of Indian tribes , of a very different character ...
... tribes of Indians ; and by fair traffic , ( for he too was a trader , ) and by fair liberal dealing , they attained their object . They also strengthened the league already formed with the five Mohawk nations , by procuring for them ...
... Mohawk , would be regarded as unmanly and frivolous objects , and which the ... people are very fond , and of arms made purposely in the form of those used in ... nations , splendidly arrayed in a suit of light blue , made in an antique ...
... people did by no means take to themselves any merit in making proselytes . When ... Nations . By till- ing the ground I would not be understood to mean any ... Mohawk river , by the women , who had no implements of tillage but the hoe ...
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