. Memoirs of an American lady; with sketches of manners and scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution . uld not acquit the parties concerned, whoseduty it was, either to keep their daughters fromthat society for which their undisguised simplicityof heart unfitted them, or give them that cultureand usage of life, which enables a young person tomaintain a certain dignity, and to revolt at the first AN AMERICAN LADY 307 trespass on decorum. Her own proteges were in-stances of this ; who, having their minds early storedwith sentiments, such as would enable them trulyto estimate
. Memoirs of an American lady; with sketches of manners and scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution . uld not acquit the parties concerned, whoseduty it was, either to keep their daughters fromthat society for which their undisguised simplicityof heart unfitted them, or give them that cultureand usage of life, which enables a young person tomaintain a certain dignity, and to revolt at the first AN AMERICAN LADY 307 trespass on decorum. Her own proteges were in-stances of this ; who, having their minds early storedwith sentiments, such as would enable them trulyto estimate their own value, and to judge of thecharacters and pretensions of those who conversedwith them ; all conducted themselves with the ut-most propriety, though daily mixing with strangers,and were solicited in marriage by the first people inthe province, who thought themselves happy toselect companions from such a school of intelli-gence and politeness, where they found beauty ofthe first order, informed by mind, and graced bythe most pleasing manners. PART TWO E MEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY AJTQ*. L*Wf>XT*LPCN FOUNDATIfNt. ^TTVl^j^ Sfr^nJ^ MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY Chapter I DEATH OF COLONEL PHILIP SCHUYLER THIS year (1757) was marked by an eventthat not only clouded the future life ofMadame, but occasioned the deepest concern to thewhole province. Colonel Schuyler was scarcelysensible of the decline of life, except some attacksof the rheumatism, to which the people of thatcountry are peculiarly subject: he enjoyed soundhealth and equal spirits, and had upon the whole,from the temperance of his habits, and the singularequanimity of his mind, a more likely prospect ofprolonging his happy and useful life, than falls tothe lot of most people. He had, however, in verycold weather, gone to town to visit a relation, thenill of a pleurisy ; and having sat a while by theinvalid, and conversed with him both on his worldlyand spiritual affairs, he returned very rising the next
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