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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... occupied by a single independent company , who did duty , but were dispersed through the town , working at various trades : so scarce , indeed , were artisans in this community , that a tradesman might in these days ask any wages he ...
... occupy , the limits of which were undefined . But the province of New York was a fron- tier ; and , as such , a kind of barrier to the southern colonies . It began also to compete for a share of the fur - trade , then very considerable ...
... occupied by the ordinary details of the day , and the gossiping tattle of the neighbor- hood . The life of new settlers , in a situation like this , where the very foundations of society were to be laid , was a life of exigences . Every ...
... occupied by public edifices . These consisted of a market - place , or guard - house , a town hall , and the English and Dutch churches . The English church , belonging to the Episcopal persuasion , and in the diocese of the bishop of ...
... occupied first by sandy hills , on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor in prodigious quantities ; be- yond , rise heights of a poor hungry soil , thinly covered with stunted pines , or dwarf oak . Yet in this comparatively ...
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