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TO THE MEMORY OF AN HONORED COLONIAL

DAME OF TO-DAY,

DEBORAH BROWN COLEMAN,

THIS BRIEF RECORD OF

COLONIAL LIFE

IS

Affectionately Dedicated.

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WHILE men still recall the rustic pleasures of an old country seat in New York whose site is now the heart of the great metropolis, or remember forest trees surrounding a house at the corner of Twelfth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia, or tell of a boyhood spent in the pretty country town of Boston where stagecoaches clattered in from the rural districts, it seems time to collect in permanent form memorials of a past that cannot much longer be held in the memory of the living. By talking with men and women who lived in the first quarter of this century, we not only learn how our great cities appeared before the advent of the railroad, the steamboat, and the telegraph, but also, reaching back through their

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family traditions, are placed in touch with the scenes of the Revolution and, even further back, with those of Colonial days.

To give glimpses of social and domestic life North and South, gathered from such recollections and from diaries and letters, rather than to present a full or connected story of Colonial times, have these pages been written. For manuscripts, pictures, and data placed at my disposal, I take pleasure in making grateful acknowledgment to Mr. Justin Winsor, of Cambridge, to General Loring and Mr. Henry Ernest Woods, of Boston, to Mr. Matthew Clarkson, of New York, to Miss Adelaide L. Fries, of Salem, North Carolina, and to Dr. Charles J. Stillé, Mr. David Lewis, Mr. Edward Shippen, Dr. Charles Cadwalader, Mr. F. J. Dreer, Mrs. Oliver Hopkinson, and Miss Marion Wetherill, of Philadelphia.

November, 1894.

A. H. W.

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