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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... Habits of the Albanians de- scribed CHAPTER IX . - Description of the Manner in which the Indian Tra- ders set out on their first Adventure ............ CHAPTER X. - Marriages , Amusements , Rural Excursions , & c . , & c . , among the ...
... habits sordid and par- simonious . As the settlement 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 ...
... habits of his ancestors , his wealth was not an object of envy , nor a source of corrup- tion to his fellow - citizens . To the northward of these bounds , and at the southern extremity also , the Schuylers and Cuy- lers held lands of ...
... habits had greatly changed the character of these republicans . But the commercial spirit , inherent in all true Batavians , only slept to wake again , when the avidity of gain was called forth by the temptation of bar- tering for any ...
... habits of life , at once pastoral and patriarchal , to travel over seas , visit courts , and mingle in the bustle of a world , the customs of which were become foreign to those primitive inhabitants of new and remote regions . The ...
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Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes ..., Volumen1 Anne MacVicar Grant Vista previa limitada - 2011 |