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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... officer in the fifty - fifth regiment of the British army . In the following year , 1758 , Mrs. McVickar and her daughter also arrived in New York ; and speedily after removed to Claverack , where she resided while Mr. McVickar was ...
... officer's sash than any thing I can compare it to . While the women and children were thus employed , the men sometimes assisted them in the more laborious part of their business , but oftener occupied them- selves in fishing on the ...
... officers of the colonel's regi- ment , were received ; and those of the next class , who could not find room there , were accommodated by Peter and Jere- miah . On the common was an Indian encampment ; and the barn and orchard were full ...
... officer ; and being a great talker , war and poli- tics were his incessant topics . There was no campaign nor expedition proposed but what he censured and decided on ; proposing methods of his own , by which they might have been much ...
... officers might in some instances be thoughtless , and even profligate , but they were seldom ignorant or low - bred ; and that rare character called a finished gentleman , was not unfrequently to be found among the higher ranks of them ...
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