Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionAppleton, 1846 - 295 halaman 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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... English tongue , which they did the more willingly , as , after the revolution , the accession of the Stadtholder to the English crown very much reconciled them to our government . Still , however , the English was a kind of court ...
... English ; when they did , they were thought ac- complished ; they generally spoke it , however imperfectly , and few were taught writing . This confined education pre- cluded elegance ; yet , though there was no polish , there was no ...
... English and Dutch churches . The English church , belonging to the Episcopal persuasion , and in the diocese of the bishop of London , stood at the foot of the hill , at the upper end of the street . The Dutch church was situated at the ...
... English with equal ease and purity ; was no stranger to the French tongue ; and could ( I think ) read Ger- man . I have heard her speak it . From the conversations which her active curiosity led her to hold with native Afri- cans ...
... English into our lakes , to trade with the wolf and elk tribes , as the pray- ing Indians brought the French to our castles , to carry on a trade , which the English say is theirs . We are born free . We neither depend upon Onnonthio ...
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