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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... lands adjacent . The original proprietor obtained from the High and Mighty States a grant of lands , which , from the church , extended twelve miles in every di- rection , forming a manor twenty - four Dutch miles in length , and the ...
... lands of their own . But the only other great land- • holders I remember , holding their land by those original tenures , were Philips and Cortlandt ; their lands lay also on the Hudson River , half way down to New York , and were ...
... land districts ; female education , of consequence , was con- ducted on a very limited scale ; girls learned needlework ( in which they were indeed both skilful and ingenious ) from their mothers and aunts ; they were taught too at that ...
... lands , which never were nor will be inhabited , covered with the berry - bearing myrtle , from which wax is extracted fit for candles . Behind these banks are woods and unwholesome swamps of great extent . The myrtle groves formerly ...
... land in their vicinity . Orphans were never neglected ; and from their early marriages , and the casualties to which their manner of life subjected them , these were not unfrequent . You never entered a house without meeting children ...
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