Anne Grant's 1808 memoir of her stay in the Albany area during the 1760s is notable for its accurate description of colonial life and manners, as well as its discussion of ...

The Scottish writer Anne Grant (1755-1838) presents her childhood memories of pre-revolutionary New York in this work of 1808.

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 ...