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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... river , and the other , now State - street , run- ning down from the old fort on the top of the hill . She alluded to the unsophisticated customs of the times past ; and gave me the story of the lads and lasses , sometimes fifty in a ...
... River 258 260 CHAPTER LIX . - The Swamp . - A Discovery ... CHAPTER LX . - Mrs . Schuyler's View of the Continental Politics ... 265 CHAPTER LXI . — Description of the Breaking - up of the Ice on the Hudson River ......... CHAPTER LXII ...
... river half frozen , that betrays your footing every moment . By these repulsive artifices no person of real discernment is for a mo- ment imposed upon . You do not know exactly which part of the narrative is false ; but you are sure it ...
... River . This copious and majestic stream is navi- gable 170 miles from its mouth , for vessels of sixty or seventy tons burden . Near the head of it , as a kind of barrier against the natives , and a central resort for traders , the ...
... River , half way down to New York , and were denominated Philips's and Cortlandt's manors . At the time of the first settling of the country , the Indians were numerous and powerful along all the river ; but they consisted of wan ...
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