Identifier: diaryofannagreen00wins (find matches)
Title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston school girl of 1771
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Winslow, Anna Green, 1759-1779 Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r. I sup-pose she dont think I am worth an answer.But I have finished my stent, and wrote allunder this date, & now I have just daylighteno to add, my love and duty to dear friendsat Cumberlajid. March 14. — Mr. Stephen March, at whosehouse I was treated so kindly last fall, de-parted this life last week, after languishingseveral months under a complication of dis-orders — we have not had perticulars, there-fore cannot inform you, whether he engagdthe King of terrors with christian fortitude,or otherwise. Stoop down my Thoughts, that use to rise,Converse a while with Death ;Think how a gasping Mortal lies,And pants away his Breath, Last Thursday I dind with unkle Storer,& family at aunt Sukeys — all well exceptCharles Storer who was not so ill but what,that I mean, he dind with us. Aunt SukysCharles is a pretty little boy & grows nicely.We were diverted in the afternoon with anaccount of a queer Feast that had been madethat day in a certain Court of this town for the
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EBENEZER STORER THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS. DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINS LOW. 45 the Entertainment of a number of Tories —perhaps seventeen. One containd threecalves heads (skin off) with their appurti-nencies anciently calld pluck — Their otherdish (for they had but two) containd a num-ber of roast fowls — half a dozen, we sup-pose,* & all roosters at this season no doubt.Yesterday, soon after I came from writingschool we had another snow storm begun,which continued till after I went to bed.This morning the sun shines clear (so it didyesterday morning till 10 oclock.) It is nowbitter cold, & such a quantity of snow uponthe ground, as the Old people dont rememberever to have seen before at this time of theyear. My aunt Deming says, when she firstlookd abroad this morning she felt anxiousfor her brother, & his family at Cumberland,fearing lest they were covered up in snow.It is now 1-2 after 12 oclock noon. Thesun has been shineing in h

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