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
Wolsey Rogers married, Thursday evening, December 1, 1807, Miss
Susan Bayard.
Footnote 76:
Harriet Clarke, a daughter of John Innes Clarke of Providence, and
sister of Mrs. Kane.
Footnote 77:
Mrs. Oliver Kane had married, at Providence, R. I., May 22, 1803,
Mr. Oliver Kane, merchant of this city. Her children were Mrs. King
of Albany, Mrs. William Russel, Mrs. Nicholsen, John, De Lancey, and
Miss Lydia Kane.
Footnote 78:
Mrs. Gilbert R. Livingston (Martha Kane), a sister of Oliver Kane.
Her children were Mrs. Henry Beekman, Mrs. Codwise, Mrs. Constable,
the Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, and James Kane Livingston.
Footnote 79:
Mrs. Fish (Miss Elizabeth Stuyvesant) had married, April 30, 1803,
Colonel Nicholas Fish. This daughter was Mrs. Daniel le Roy. The
Hon. Hamilton Fish and Mrs. Richard Morris were also children of
Colonel Fish’s.
Footnote 80:
_Pauline Porter_, daughter of Paulina King and Dr. Aaron Porter of
Portland, had married Edward Beecher.
Footnote 81:
Mary King Porter, her sister, married Nathaniel Coffin of Saco.
Footnote 82:
Horatio Southgate married his first wife, Nabby McLellan, September
29, 1805. Mrs. Bowne is here alluding to her sister Octavia’s
engagement to William Browne.
Footnote 83:
Robert Murray, Mr. Bowne’s nephew.
Footnote 84:
_Frederic Southgate_, her youngest brother.
Footnote 85:
John, Charles, and James King, sons of Rufus King, Mrs. Bowne’s
cousins. James was at that time at Harvard College.
Footnote 86:
Mrs. Gillespie (Amelia Denning). This daughter died when a very
young girl of a putrid sore throat.
Footnote 87:
Walter Bowne, Jr. Eldest child of Walter Bowne and Eliza Southgate.
Footnote 88:
Kitty Bayard married Duncan Campbell. Her sister Susan had married
Woolsey Rogers, December 1, 1807.
Footnote 89:
Mary, oldest daughter of Robert Watts and his wife Lady Mary
Alexander, married Dr. Romaine, who left her a widow after a few
years of married life. At the age of seventy-three Mrs. Romaine
married her first love, Peter Bertram Cruger, a widower with eight
children. Miss Watts’s engagement to Dr. Romaine was a surprise to
her friends, who knew of her attachment to Mr. Cruger.
Footnote 90:
John Alsop King, oldest son of Rufus King and his wife Mary Alsop.
John A. King was twice governor of the State of New York. He married
in 1810 Mary Ray. Charles King, the second son of Rufus King, for
some time President of Columbia College, New York. He married twice:
first, Miss Gracie, and for his second wife Miss Low, the daughter
of his father’s intimate friend Nicholas Low.
Footnote 91:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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