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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... regard . Calm and resigned , she ceased to live in 1838 , being then eighty - five years of age . I was in Edinburgh in 1834 ; and on the morning of February the fifth , I called at her house to see and converse with that venerable ...
... regard to my friend , and the infant society to which they belonged , will , I flatter myself , give an interest , with re- flecting minds , even to this desultory narrative , and the miscellany of description , observation , and detail ...
... regard and beneficence reflected upon them . Yet without those subordinate persons in the drama , the action of human life , especially such a life as hers , cannot be carried on . Those can neither appear with grace , nor be omitted ...
... regard to the town and the 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 ...
... regard to food or clothing between their children and those of their masters . When a negro - woman's child attained the age of three years , it was solemnly presented , the first New Year's day following , to a son or daughter , or ...
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