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
John Murray & Sons have removed their Counting House to Mr. Murray’s
country seat on the Harlem Road, 3 1–2 miles from town.
[This was at Murray Hill, about the corner of 37th Street and Fifth
Avenue.]
The Editor being obliged to be absent from town a few days, the
discussions respecting _yellow fever_ will, of course, be suspended
for a little time.
Footnote 62:
Mr. Boyd, Mrs. Bowne’s brother-in-law, had been in England for some
months and was now expected to return to his home.
Footnote 63:
Mrs. Boyd, Isabella Southgate.
Footnote 64:
Beau Dawson, Mr. J. Dawson of Virginia. He had been sent out by
President Jefferson in April, 1801, as bearer of the Treaty or
Convention between France and the United States as ratified by the
latter. The ship in which he sailed was wrecked and the Treaty lost,
although the envoy was saved. Another treaty was drawn up and
dispatched as soon as possible, but there was great annoyance at the
delay.
Footnote 65:
Highlands. The hills about West Point on the Hudson are so called.
The road from Peekskill to Garrison’s over the hill called
“Anthony’s Nose” is particularly steep and stony. The Beverly Farm,
which was owned by Mr. William Denning, lay in the midst of these
hills. The house is still standing and is almost unaltered.
Footnote 66:
To Miranda Southgate, or, more likely, to Octavia. (M. K. L.)
Footnote 67:
From Octavia Southgate to Mrs. Southgate.
Footnote 68:
Mr. Newbold and Mr. Philip Rhinelander were well-known New Yorkers.
The latter married, December 22, 1814, Miss Mary Colden Hoffman.
Footnote 69:
Mr. Jephson was an Englishman who had lately arrived in New York.
Footnote 70:
John Duer married Miss Anne Bunner October 19, 1804, and his
brother, William Duer, soon after married Maria Denning. Mr.
Rhinelander engaged the two Miss Duers to the wrong men. Fanny
married Beverly Robinson, and Sally married, March 10, 1805, John
Witherspoon Smith, and died July 10, 1887, in the one hundred and
first year of her age.
Footnote 71:
Mrs. Kane’s “charming little girl” became Mrs. James King of Albany,
and the mother of many well-known New Yorkers.
Footnote 72:
Lady Temple was the daughter of Governor Bowdoin, and had married
Sir John Temple. Their daughter, afterwards Mrs. Winthrop, was the
mother of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. She was long the reigning
belle in Boston.
Footnote 73:
Mr. and Mrs. Bogert were intimate friends of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
King’s, and they occupied adjoining places at Jamaica.
Footnote 74:
Mrs. Heyward was Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’ daughter. She married Mr.
Heyward of South Carolina. Miss Heyward married Mr. Cutting of New
York, and was the mother of Messrs. William, Heyward, and Brockholst
Cutting.
Footnote 75:
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