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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... caught drows instead of trout . Mrs. Grant also described the old nuptial ceremonies ; and par- ticularly specified the marriage of couples , of which the eldest was not seventeen years of age . In that case the PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE . 5.
... described ......... 208 CHAPTER XLIX . - Sir Jeffrey Amherst . - Mutiny . - Indian War ...... 214 CHAPTER L. - Pondiac . - Sir Robert D ........ 218 , 223 CHAPTER LI . - Death of Captain Dalziel . - Sudden Decease of an Indian Chief ...
... described . THE foundations , both of friendship and still tenderer at- tachments , were here laid very early by an institution which I always thought had been peculiar to Albany , till I found , in Dr. Moore's View of Society on the ...
... described in the romantic legends of chivalry . The small bark canoe in which this hardy adventurer em- barked himself , his fortune , and his faithful squire , ( who was generally born in the same house , and predestined to his service ...
... described . The young parties , or sometimes the elder ones , who set out on this woodland excursion , had no fixed destination ; they travelled generally in the forenoon , and when they were tired of going on the ordinary road , turned ...
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