American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete
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American Historical and Literary Curiosities - J. Jay Smith
J. Jay Smith
American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CURIOSITIES
By John Jay Smith
Second Series 1860
AMUSING SCENES OF THE REVOLUTION.
JOURNAL OF A YOUNG LADY,
LETTER FROM MARTHA WASHINGTON TO MRS. GENERAL WARREN.
NEW YORK, December the 26th, 1789.
MAJOR ANDRE.
LETTERS FROM MAJOR ANDRE.
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AMUSING SCENES OF THE REVOLUTION.
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JOURNAL OF A YOUNG LADY,
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Kept for the amusement of her Friend Deborah Norris,
afterwards the wife of Dr. George Logan, of Stenton, Pennsylvania.
UNDER the impression that the British army would very soon take possession of Philadelphia, one of its highly respectable citizens removed his family to North Wales, in the county of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, and the following lively, amusing, and natural journal was written by his daughter, then in her fifteenth year. It was addressed to her friend and schoolmate, Deborah Norris, subsequently married to Doctor George Logan, the grandson of James Logan, and has been kindly loaned by the family of the writer.
To the youth of the writer must be ascribed any inaccuracies of expression which may be discovered. It has been carefully copied from the much-faded original, and the punctuation only corrected. The Journal gives a peep at the manners of the day, and introduces us to the American army in a most characteristic manner.
To DEBORAH NORRIS.
1776-7
Though I have not the least shadow of an opportunity to send a letter if I do write, I will keep a sort of journal of the time that may expire before I see thee: the perusal of it may some time hence give pleasure in a solitary hour to thee and our S. J.
Yesterday, which was the 24th of September, two Virginia officers called at our house, and informed us that the British army had crossed the Schuylkill. Presently after, another person stopped and confirmed what they