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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... object of this work is to record the few incidents , and the many virtues , which diversified and dis- tinguished the life of a most valued friend . Though no manners could be more simple , no notions more primitive , than those which ...
... object of rational curiosity , as well as a kind of phenomenon in the history of colonization . I forewarn the reader not to look for lucid order in the narration , nor for intimate connection be- tween its parts . I have no authorities ...
... 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 their own . But the only other great land ...
... object here was to tame savage nature , and to make the boundless wild subservient to agricultural purposes . Commercial pursuits were a distant prospect ; and before they became of consequence , rural habits had greatly changed the ...
... object . They also strengthened the league already formed with the five Mohawk nations , by procuring for them some assistance against their enemies , the Onondagoes of the Lakes . Queen Anne had by this time succeeded the Stadtholder ...
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