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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of Copy 1 MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY. 726 1119 WITH SKETCHES OF MANNERS AND SCENERY IN AMERICA, AS THEY EXISTED PREVIOUS TO THE REVOLUTION. BY THE AUTHOR OF “LETTERS FROM THE MOUNTAINS.” Grant, Mrs....
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of Copy 1 NOTICE. Among the scenes of peculiar interest the American traveller is, as it were, under a patriotic obligation to visit while abroad, may be mentioned the birth-place of Columbus near Genoa, Cave...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of Copy 1 iv ice in the Hudson,” as “quite Homeric,” must bespeak for it a favourable perusal. As a picture, taken at the dawning of the Revolution, of the clouds which then passed along...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of Copy 1 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM GRANT, K. N. T. MASTER OF THE ROLLS. SIR, It is very probable that the friends, by whose solicitations I was induced to arrange in the...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of Copy 1 vi faults, I may venture to invite you, when you unbend from the useful and honourable labours to which your valuable time is devoted, to trace this feeble delineation of an excellent,...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of Copy 1 CONTENTS. Page Introduction xii CHAP. I. Province of New-York—Origin of the settlement at Albany—Singular possession held by the patron—Account of his tenants 19 CHAP. II. Account of the Five Nations, or Mohawk...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of Copy 1 viii CHAP. VIII. Education and early habits of the Albanians described 46 CHAP. IX. Description of the manner in which the Indian traders set out on their first adventure 52 CHAP. X....
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of Copy 1 ix CHAP. XXI. Distinguishing characteristics of the New-York colonists, to what owing—Huegonots and Palatines, their character 115 CHAP. XXII. A child still-born—Adoption of children common in the province— Madame's visit to New-York...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of Copy 1 x CHAP. XXXIII. Followers of the army—Inconveniences resulting from such 177 CHAP. XXXIV. Arrival of a new regiment—Domine Frelinghausen 182 CHAP. XXXV. Plays acted—Displeasure of the Domine 187 CHAP. XXXVI. Return of...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of Copy 1 xi CHAP. XLV. Continuation of the Journey—Arrival at Oswego—Regulations, Studies, and amusements there 232 CHAP. XLVI. Benefit of select reading—Hunting excursions 241 CHAP. XLVII. Gardening and agriculture—Return of the author to Albany...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of Copy 1 xii CHAP. LVII. Settlers of a new description—Madame's chaplain 301 CHAP. LVIII. Mode of conveying timber in rafts down the river 309 CHAP. LIX. The Swamp—A discovery 312 CHAP. LX. Mrs. Schuyler's...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of Copy 1 INTRODUCTION. To— DEAR SIR, Others as well as you have expressed a wish to see a memoir of my earliest and most valued friend. To gratify you and them I feel many...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of Copy 1 xiv fellow-mortals, and leave a luminous track behind, on which successive ages gaze with wonder and delight. But the sweet influence of these benign stars that now and then enlighten the page...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of Copy 1 xv Where shall we seek the antidote to this chilling gloom left on the mind by the bustling intricate scenes, where the best characters, goaded on by furious factions or dire necessity,...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of Copy 1 xvi out of sight of the original subject. Let me then resume it, and return to my objections. Of these the first and greatest is the dread of being inaccurate. Embellished facts,...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of Copy 1 xvii not touch without kindling into an enthusiasm, sacred at once to virtue and to friendship. Venerated friend of my youth, my guide and my instructress; are then the dregs of an...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of Copy 1 xviii I must be excused too for dwelling, at times, on the recollection of a state of society so peculiar, so utterly dissimilar to any other that I have heard or read...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of Copy 1 MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY. CHAPTER I. Province of New-York—Origin of the Settlement at Albany—Singular Possession held by the Patron—Account of his Tenants. It is well known that the province of New-York,...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of Copy 1 20 which opposed the Stadtholder, arid which was then in its turn depressed. These persons afterwards distinguished themselves by an aversion, almost amounting to antipathy, to the British army, and indeed to...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of Copy 1 21 pre-eminence which his successor still enjoys, both with regard to the town and the lands adjacent. The original proprietor having obtained from the high and mighty states a grant of lands,...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of Copy 1 22 nor a source of corruption to his fellow-citizens. To the northward of these bounds, and at the southern extremity also, the Schuylers and Cuylers held lands of their own. But the...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of Copy 1 23 savages who had fixed habitations; who cultivated rich fields; who built castles, (for so they called their not incommodious wooden houses, surrounded with palisadoes;) who planted maize and beans, and showed...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of Copy 1 24 among the Stadtholder's party. When the province of New-York fell under the British dominion, it became necessary that every body should learn our language, as all public business was carried on...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of Copy 1 25 by their example and influence, checked for a while such illiberal and dangerous practices. It is a fact singular and worth attending to, from the lesson it exhibits, that in all...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of Copy 1 26 might seem irrelevant to the present purpose, I could relate many instances almost incredible, of the power of mind displayed by this gentleman in governing the uninstructed without coercion or legal...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of Copy 1 27 CHAP. III. Colonel Schuyler persuades four Sachems to accompany him to England—Their reception and return. It was thought advisable to bring over some of the heads of tribes to England to...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of Copy 1 28 manners, and habits of life, at once pastoral and patriarchal, to travel over seas, and mingle in the bustle of a world, the customs of which were become foreign to those...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of Copy 1 29 to inform and improve them, that the ill success of all such experiments since have been owing. Instead of endeavouring to conciliate them by genuine kindness, and by gradually and gently...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 30 of Copy 1 30 present rapid modes of transmitting intelligence were unknown, in a country so detached and inland as that at Albany, the return of these interesting travellers was like the first lighting of...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 31 of Copy 1 31 Paradise Lost; which in after-times afforded such delight to some branches of his family, that to them “Paradise (indeed) seemed opened in the wild.” But to return to our Sachems, from...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 32 of Copy 1 32 this her uncle early observed. It was at that time very difficult to procure the means of instruction in those inland districts; female education of consequence was conducted on a very...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 33 of Copy 1 33 were no degrees but those assigned to worth and intellect. This singular community seemed to have a common stock, not only of sufferings and enjoyments, but of information and ideas; some...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 34 of Copy 1 34 have rendered irreconcileable enemies, they were at first obliged to “assume a virtue if they had it not;” and every circumstances that renders virtue habitual, may be accounted a happy one....
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 35 of Copy 1 35 without showing rancour or contempt towards those who did not. In many individuals, whose lives seemed governed by the principles of religion, the spirit of devotion seemed to be quiescent in...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 36 of Copy 1 36 A woman, in very easy circumstances, and abundantly gentle in form and manners, would sow, and plant, and rake, incessantly. These fair gardeners too were great florists; their emulation and solicitude...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 37 of Copy 1 37 though the original congregation was by that time much blended in the mass of general society. It was the custom of the inhabitants of the upper settlement, who had any pretensions...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 38 of Copy 1 38 wider than the other; it was only paved on each side, the middle being occupied by public edifices. These consisted of a market-place, or guard-house, a town hall, and the English...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 39 of Copy 1 39 clothed in the plainest habits, and with minds as undisguised and artless. These primitive beings were dispersed in porches grouped according to similarity of years and inclinations. At one door young...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 40 of Copy 1 40 charming little glens, and built neat cottages for their slaves, surrounded with little gardens and orchards, sheltered from every blast, wildly picturesque, and richly productive. Those small sequestered vales had an...
- Contributor: Grant, Anne Macvicar
- Date: 1836-01-01