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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... whole province . Let it be remembered that the distance from New York to Albany is 170 miles ; and that in the intermediate space , at the period of which I speak , there was not one town or forti- fied place . The shadow of a ...
... whole was implicated ; for there were no degrees but those assigned to worth and intellect . This singular com- munity seemed to have a common stock , not only of suffer- ings and enjoyments , but of information and ideas ; some pre ...
... whole family as a most dreadful calamity , and the culprits were carefully watched on their way to New York , lest they should evade the sentence by self - destruction . One must have lived among those placid and humane peo- 12 W ple to ...
... whole stock of spleen in decrying the rival baskets . Nor would they ever admit that the rival company gathered near so much fruit on these excursions as they did . The parents of these children seemed very much to encourage this man ...
... whole day in search of game , to the neglect of all intellectual improvement ; and they thus con- tracted a love of savage liberty which might , and in some in- stances did , degenerate into licentious and idle habits . In- deed , there ...
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