A girl's life eighty years ago : $b Selections from the letters of Eliza Southgate BowneBowne, Eliza Southgate
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A girl's life eighty years ago : $b Selections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne
Bowne, Eliza Southgate
Bowne, Eliza Southgate, 1783-1809; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865
Lucia, Zilpah, and John were the children of Genl. Peleg Wadsworth.
Zilpah afterwards married Stephen Longfellow, and was the mother of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Genl. Wadsworth lived at Hiram, on the
Saco River.
Footnote 54:
Dr. William Moore was a celebrated physician of New York. He married
Miss Sarah Fish and had by her a numerous family. Among them being
Nathaniel Moore, President of Columbia College, and Dr. Samuel
Moore, also a favorite physician.
Footnote 55:
He was returning from his mission in London, where he had been
Minister to the Court of St. James from the United States.
Footnote 56:
Nicholas Low, a merchant in New York. Among his descendants are Mrs.
Eugene Schuyler and the wife of M. Waddington, at present ambassador
to the Court of St. James from France.
Footnote 57:
Mr. Watson was at this time a widower with one son, James Watson.
This son became a great beau in New York society, but died unmarried
and insane.
Footnote 58:
William Henderson, who had married Sarah Denning.
Footnote 59:
George III of England.
Footnote 60:
Bethlehem. This is a place originally settled by a religious sect
called Moravians. They were famous for their schools,—one for boys
kept by the Brothers, and a girls’ school kept by the Sisters. Young
ladies were sent to Bethlehem from New York, Philadelphia, and
distant parts of the country, to receive their education at this
place. In a letter from John Adams to his daughter, dated Monday,
Feb. 10th, 1823, he speaks of it: “I have seen a remarkable
institution for the education of young ladies at Bethlehem. About
120 of them live under the same roof. They sleep all together in the
same garret. I saw 120 beds in two long rows in the same room. The
beds and bedclothes were all of excellent quality and extraordinary
neat. How should you like to live in such a nunnery?”
Footnote 61:
The yellow fever having broken out in New York, the city was
deserted by all who could leave it. Even the business was transacted
in the neighboring village of Greenwich, which is now incorporated
in the city itself and its boundaries lost in the surrounding
streets. The following advertisements have been copied from the
“Evening Post,” Thursday, Aug. 25, 1803, as being of interest, as
the advertisers were not only well-known New Yorkers, but personal
friends of Mrs. Bowne:—
Woolsey & Rogers’ Counting House is removed to No. 28 Courtlandt
Street.
REMOVAL. William Codman has removed his Counting House to the N. E.
corner room in the 2nd Story of the City Hotel, Broadway.
John G. Bogart, Attorney at law & Notary Public, has Removed his
office to the House of Judge Livingston, No. 37 Broadway, near the
Custom House.
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