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Letters of Eliza Southgate
Letters of Eliza Southgate – Eliza Southgate Eliza Southgate Bowne was the writer of a series of charming letters which are now published with the subtitle of „A Girl’s Life Eighty Years Ago“. They give a delightfully vivacious picture of the aristocratic society of the early days of the Republic, the names of many belles […]
The Journals of Nicholas Cresswell
The Journals of Nicholas Cresswell – Nicholas Cresswell These are the journals of Nicholas Cresswell, who sailed to the American colonies after becoming acquainted with a native of Edale who was now resident in Alexandria, Virginia. He was 24 years old when he arrived and for the next three years he kept a journal of […]
Travels through the interior parts of America
Travels through the interior parts of America – Thomas Anburey Thomas Anburey was a British explorer and author of this narrative of his travels in North America in the 1770s-1780s. Anburey served under General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga. The travel narrative consists of more than eighty letters and draws a picture of […]
The Bank of Faith and Works United
The Bank of Faith and Works United – Dorothy Ripley Dorothy Ripley was a British evangelist who came to America in 1801, where she died in Virginia. Although she was a Quaker by confession, she had been raised a Methodist. She traveled thousands of miles in both the United States and Britain on the camp […]
The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts
The Journal of Jasper Danckaerts – Jasper Danckaerts Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River, located in the present US state of Maryland. The narrative of his journey in 1679 and 1680 offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the […]
Memoirs of an American Lady
Memoirs of an American Lady – Anne MacVicar Grant 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 […]