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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... considered themselves obliged to pay their respects to her ; and it was a privilege to have an in- terview with that lady , for she always received them with manifest attention and regard . Calm and resigned , she ceased to live in 1838 ...
... considered as in a manner lord paramount of this city , a pre- eminence which his successor still enjoys , both with regard to the town and the lands adjacent . The original proprietor obtained from the High and Mighty States a grant of ...
... considered him as an idolater be- cause he had an image of the Virgin in his hut . I think he retired to Canada at last ; but I remember being ready to worship him for the sanctity with which my imagination in- vested him , and being ...
... considered it as singular . Colonel Schuyler , of whom I am to speak , had a relation so weak and defective in capacity , that he never was intrusted with any thing of his own , and lived an idle bachelor about the family . In process ...
... considered him as a mysterious and anomalous being . I have dwelt the longer on this singular instance of sla- very , existing devoid of its attendant horrors , because the fidelity and affection resulting from a bond of union so early ...
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