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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... began to extend they retired , and formed new establishments , afterwards called Firkkill , Esopus , & c . To the Schuylers , Cuylers , Delancys , Cortlandts , and a few others , this description did by no means apply . Yet they too ...
... began to discover itself in hostilities to the infant colony . A motive for this could scarce be discovered , since they possessed already much more ter- ritory than they were able to occupy , the limits of which were undefined . But ...
... father forty or at most fifty dollars , a negro boy , and a canoe ; all of a sudden he assumed the brow of care and solicitude , and began to smoke , a precaution absolutely necessary to repel aguish damps AND SCENERY IN AMERICA . 45.
... began life ; nor must it be thought that those were mean or uninformed persons . Patriots , magistrates , generals , those who were afterwards wealthy , powerful , and distinguished , all , except a few elder brothers , occupied by ...
... by degrees , these pious matrons ( probably assisted by those lay - brothers of whom I have spoken ) began to diffuse the knowledge of the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity among the elderly and well 68 SKETCHES OF MANNERS.
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