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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... followed by others more wealthy and better informed . Indeed , some of the early emigrants appear to have been people respectable both from their family and character . Of these the principal were the Cuylers , the Schuylers , the ...
... followed them by torch light ; and often continued two nights upon the water , never returning till they had loaded their canoes with this valuable fish , and many other very excellent in their kinds , that come up the river usually at ...
... followed by two dreadful privations : a mar- ried man could not fly down the street in a little sledge , nor join a party of pig - stealers , without outraging decorum . If any of their confederates married , as they frequently did ...
... followed , meanly attired , bent under the weight of the chil- dren and utensils which they carried everywhere with them , and disfigured and degraded by ceaseless toils . They were very early married for a Mohawk had no other servant ...
... followed ; but she had too much sedateness and independence to adopt those caressing and insinuating manners , by which the vain and the artful so soon find their way into shallow minds . Her character did not captivate at once , but ...
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