Chapter VIII: Part 8

I have been waiting day after day, my Dear Aunt, in the hope of having
something pleasant to communicate to you, but I do very much fear I
shall now have nothing, if ever, to say about our Dear Eliza but will
give you pain. I sat down to write to you without knowing what to say.
I have been so in the habit of dissembling lately that I can hardly
throw it off, for when I write my Father and Mother everything is so
glossed over, ’tis impossible to come at the truth. You know not how I
am affected, my Dear Aunt. I fear I am doing wrong in deceiving them,
for it is my firm opinion she never will be well. Do advise me, tell
me what I ought to do. I think to you I may say the truth—I think she
has been growing sicker every hour since she left New York. Her voyage
had a singular effect upon her: she suffered but little from
seasickness, but every bad symptom she had before seemed increased;
she coughed a great deal and very hard, her fever and night sweats
were excessive. You may imagine she was much weakened; but I hoped
this was a temporary thing, and a few days of quiet and of rest would
restore her; but instead of that, directly after our arrival a sort of
intermittent fever took place, she had a regular chill and fever every
day, she lost her strength very much, no appetite at all. This last
four or five days her disorder wears another appearance. ’Tis now
Thursday. On Sunday Dr. Irvine ordered her to take Quashy in order to
prevent a chill; she took it according to his direction—it brought on
her fever at 1 o’clock in the morning, and it never left her till 12
o’clock at night, it absolutely raged all day. Since then she has had
no night sweats, no chill, but her cough and fever very much
increased. Her nerves are extremely disordered; such a tremor that
to-day she cannot feed herself at all. She is so weak and exhausted
that she cannot walk alone. ’Tis now 11 o’clock—I am sitting by her
side, and she is still coughing and in such a hot fever she can bear
nothing to touch her. I have not asked her Physician’s opinion
concerning her; ’tis unnecessary I feel, I know what it must be. Yet
is it not strange she keeps up her spirits? She is looking forward
with the greatest anxiety to warm weather. God grant it may not be too
late! Dr. Irvine was the Physician Mrs. Hovey recommended; he is
indisposed and has left his patients in the care of Dr. Barrow. The
exchange has pleased us very much, for Dr. Barrow is considered quite
as skilful, and is extremely kind and fatherly in his manners, indeed
he reminds us so strongly of our Dear Father that we already love him
very much.

February 3.

Poor Eliza had a most distressing night last night. She coughed so
long that she was entirely exhausted; her fever was very high, and she
has scarcely spoken a loud word to-day. Her nerves are in a dreadful
state. I inquired of Dr. Barrow what he thought of her situation; he
says he can say nothing encouraging. He said the disorder had taken
great hold upon her, and had shattered her nerves in a terrible
manner. He very much fears a nervous fever,—that her pulse was very
bad, as nearly as he could count up to 150. Is it not very evident
from his being so candid, my Dear Aunt, that he has but little or no
hope of her recovery? And yet so strongly do I sympathize in every
feeling of hers, that seeing her easier and more comfortable this
evening has renewed my hopes and put me quite in spirits. She has been
much better this afternoon and evening, less fever, less tremor upon
her nerves, and since she has been in bed has had no bad coughing
spell. The mail went to the Northward to-day. I have so little time to
write that I have missed it. I will let you know to-morrow how she is,
and the next day is post-day again. I know what a kind interest you
and my uncle take in our dear Eliza, and I know I cannot be too
minute. Our friends here are kinder than I can express to you. It
seems sometimes as though we were among our own relations. They think
of every little thing for Eliza’s comfort and convenience that I could
myself.

Monday, February 6.

This morning Eliza was better, my Dear Aunt, than she has been for a
week past. Her voice has returned and she appears stronger in every
respect. Yesterday and last night she had a little fever, this morning
is delightful and she is going to ride. You shall hear again from us
before long. I know Mrs. Bogert will need no apology, I am sure, for
my not writing. The repetition of such symptoms are distressing to me
beyond expression.

Your affectionate niece O. S. BROWNE.

To Mrs. Bowne.

New York, Feb’y 4, 1809.

Your letter, my love, of the 13th and 14th has comforted me. You must
keep up your spirits; you will do well, Dr. Bergere says; attacks
similar to yours are not of the dangerous kind that some think; he
approves of your taking the Lychen again. I have sent a bundle from
Mr. King by Capt. Slocum, who sails to-morrow. I am distressed I
cannot go with him, but so it is. It is next to impossible I should
leave here till about the 25th of this month. Mr. Jenkins, my
assistant, is absent, and I cannot leave the office until he returns
without relinquishing it altogether, and I have most of my houses to
let this month, those I have lately built included, and which are not
finished, but I am determined to leave here in all this month. I hope
you have a comfortable place now; what abominable lodgings the first
were! Don’t mind the expense: get everything and do everything you
like, we can afford it. I wish my presence in this place could as well
be dispensed with, but so it is. I think it right you should have a
Physician. I will bring the things you mention; our children are well.

Ever, WALTER BOWNE.

The Ship—General Eaton—has not yet arrived, I will write to Mr. Brown
by this vessel if I have time; if not, by mail on Monday or Tuesday.

(With a bundle of Lychen for E. S. B.)

The following letter from Mr. Rufus King to his nephew Horatio
Southgate, will show how much alarm was felt about Mrs. Bowne’s
health.

New York, February 9, 1809.

Dear Sir:

I have to beg your excuse that I have so long delayed my answer to
your letter written I believe in November. The Plants were a long time
on their way, and did not arrive till Christmas, when we had a few
days of mild weather, which enabled us to put them in the ground. Mr.
Mars is entitled to credit for the manner and care with which the
Plants were packed, and altho’ they were much longer out of the ground
than they sh^d have been, I am in hopes that many of them were saved.
Inclosed I send you a Post-note (payable to your order) on the Boston
Branch Bank for 47 dollars, being the amount of Mars’s account, and I
beg you to accept my acknowledgments for the trouble you have given
yourself in this Business. Should there be an opportunity direct from
Portland to N. York in the Spring, any time in Ap^l or May would do
(for that is the true season, even on to the middle of June, to remove
evergreens), I wish Mars to send me a few more spruces, one moderate
sized Box, together with some of the small Evergreen shrubs found in
the woods and pastures, and which I remember abounded in the Pasture
of Knight’s Farm, and which we called laurel, or sheep poison. Any
other small plants may be added to fill up the Box.

We yesterday heard from Mrs. Bowne, who had recovered from the fatigue
of her voyage, and thought herself something better. I am in hopes
that the soft weather of an early spring will do more for her than
medicine could have effected in the rude weather of our winter and
spring. I ought not to conceal from you, tho’ I think you sh^d not
unnecessarily increase the anxiety of your mother, that I am not free
from apprehensions regarding your Sister’s complaint; it is so
flattering and insidious, that I do not place the same Reliance upon
favorable Reports w^h in any other case I sh^d be inclined to do. I by
no means think that she has no chance of recovery. On the contrary, I
have the satisfaction to believe and expect that she will regain her
accustomed good health. Mrs. Browne’s being with her is a very
important circumstance in a case in which good nursing and careful
attention is of so much consequence.

With sincere Regards, I remain, D^r Sir,

Y^r obliged serv’t, RUFUS KING.

Horatio Southgate, Esqr., Portland, Maine.

Charleston, February 21, 1809.

I will permit no one but myself to transmit to you the dreadful
intelligence this letter will convey to you, my dear Parents. A good
and merciful God will not forsake you at this awful moment. Our dear
Eliza is freed from her earthly sufferings and I humbly trust is now a
blessed spirit in Heaven! I offer you no consolation; I commit you
into the hands of a Good God, who has supported me when my strength
failed me. She had her senses at intervals for the few days last of
her illness. She spoke of her approaching change with great composure,
said she had thought much of it, that she trusted in God for future
happiness with great satisfaction and confidence; wished her time
might come speedily that she might be relieved from the pain of seeing
her distressed friends. She suffered with wonderful patience; never
murmured. At the very last she looked the satisfaction she had not the
power to speak. At 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon was this most
afflicting scene. Octavia had great fortitude to sit by her when she
could speak only with her eyes. She knew us, and listened with
apparent satisfaction to a prayer I read only an hour before the sad
moment. It was a day of trial with us most severe.

With much affection and regard to all,
W. BROWNE.

Poor Mr. Bowne has not arrived.

To Mr. & Mrs. Southgate.

Charleston, March 12, 1809.

I hope, my dear Miranda, this will be the last letter you will receive
from me at Charleston. Poor Mr. Bowne arrived here on Thursday. Not a
word had he heard, and owing to his having left New York he had not
received a single very alarming letter. He was entirely unprepared for
the shock which awaited him; never did I pity any one so. He is indeed
borne down with the weight of his grief. But the violence I dreaded I
see nothing of. There is no judging from the effect little troubles
have upon people, how they will bear great ones. I know it by myself—I
see it in him. He is more composed to-day, and we are making
arrangements to get away. He is much gratified that we waited here for
him, which we had some doubt about on account of the great expense in
these houses. The Minerva, a very fine Packet, arrived from New York
yesterday. We shall return in her. She will go in the course of a week
or ten days. What a melancholy voyage! But yet I will not think so. I
am going to my dear father and mother, my kind sisters,—indeed, ’tis a
delightful thought.

Your sister,
O. BROWNE.

Among the letters which were so carefully preserved by her daughter,
Mrs. Lawrence, was found the following extract from a daily paper:—

Died at Charleston, S. C., on the 19th ult., Mrs. Walter Bowne,
consort of Walter Bowne, Esq., of New York, and daughter of the Hon.
Robert Southgate, of Scarborough, Maine, aged 25 years. The Bereaved
Husband and infant children, the afflicted parents, Brethren and
sisters, and the numerous respectable friends and acquaintances by
whom she was so justly respected and beloved for her talents and
virtues, will deeply mourn this early signal triumph of the King of
Terrors. But they will not “sorrow as those without hope.” Her
immortal spirit, liberated from the body, is, we trust, already
admitted to a clear and perfect, an immediate and positive, a
soul-transforming and eternal vision of God and the Redeemer. Why
the most endearing ties of nature should be dissolved almost as soon
as formed, why the dreadful law of mortality should be executed on
the most worthy and dearest objects of conjugal, parental, and
social love, in the moment of sanguine expectation of reciprocal
enjoyment, is among the dark and mysterious questions in the book of
Providence. The ways of God are inscrutable to man, “clouds and
darkness are round about him, yet righteousness and judgment are the
habitation of his throne.” All afflictive events are readily
resolved into the wisdom of God. To his sovereign will, reason and
religion, duty and interest require us to bow with reverence. What a
dark and gloomy veil is spread by the early death of our friends
over our earthly enjoyments! How tenderly are we hereby admonished
not to expect satisfaction in this empty, fluctuating, and
transitory state! How strongly urged to place our affections on
things above, to secure an immediate interest in those sublime and
durable pleasures which flow from the service and favor of God and
the prospect of complete and endless felicity in His presence.

Inscription on the monument in Archdale Churchyard, in Archdale
Street, Charleston, S. C.:—

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

ELIZA S. BOWNE

Wife of Walter Bowne of New York,
Daughter of Robert Southgate Esqr.,
of Scarborough, District of Maine,
who departed this life on the 19th
day of February, 1809, aged 25 years.

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Footnote 1:

Mrs. Rowson’s story is well known. She was an Englishwoman, Susanna
Haswell, the daughter of an officer in the navy, and was brought to
America by her father in 1767, when she was only five years old.
Their ship was wrecked on Lovell’s Island, in Boston Harbor, and
they lived at Nantasket for nearly ten years, when they went back to
England. There she married William Rowson, a musician, and went upon
the stage. In 1795–96 we find her acting in Baltimore and Boston.
She published several comedies and a number of novels; one of these,
“Charlotte Temple,” gained great popularity. She died at Boston in
1824. She taught school in several places—at Medford, at Newton, and
at Boston, and was very successful.

Footnote 2:

Joseph Coffin Boyd, of Portland, Maine. Married Isabella, oldest
daughter of Dr. Southgate.

Footnote 3:

Horatio Southgate, Dr. Southgate’s oldest son, followed the
profession of the law in the town of Portland, Maine, and was for
twenty-one years Register of Probate for Cumberland County, Maine.
Mr. Southgate married three times. His first wife was a friend of
his sisters and was Abigail McLellan, the daughter of Hugh McLellan,
a well-known East Indian merchant. Mary Webster was Mr. Southgate’s
second wife; she was the daughter of Noah Webster, whose name is
well known in connection with the dictionary that he wrote. Mr.
Southgate’s third wife was Eliza Neal of Portland. By his three
wives Mr. Southgate had a large family of children, among them being
the Rt. Rev’d Horatio Southgate and the Rev’d William Scott
Southgate.

Footnote 4:

Isabella Southgate had married to Joseph Coffin Boyd. She was Dr.
Southgate’s oldest child.

Footnote 5:

Mary Black, the second wife of Richard King, Mrs. Southgate’s
stepmother. She had married Mr. King soon after the death of his
first wife, who was her cousin, and had been a kind and devoted
mother to his three children.

Footnote 6:

Octavia Southgate, Dr. Southgate’s third daughter. She married, in
1805, William Browne.

Footnote 7:

Sarah Leland was the daughter of Mrs. Southgate’s half-sister Dorcas
King, Mrs. Joseph Leland.

Footnote 8:

Arixene and Robert Southgate, Eliza’s younger sister and brother.
Arixene married Henry Smith, of Sacarappa, Maine.

Footnote 9:

William King, the son of Richard King by his second wife Mary Black,
was a large land-owner near the town of Bath. Mr. King was elected
the first Governor when the District of Maine was changed into a
State with a government of its own.

Footnote 10:

Eleanor Coffin, afterwards Mrs. John Derby, was the daughter of Dr.
Coffin, a neighbor of Dr. Southgate’s. Martha Coffin, another
daughter, had lately married Mr. Richard Derby. The Mrs. Codman
mentioned in the previous letter was a sister of Dr. Coffin’s.

Footnote 11:

Peony (vulgarly called Piny). Note by M. B. L.

Footnote 12:

Ann, daughter of Cyrus King (Mrs. Southgate’s half-brother) and his
wife Hannah Stone. She was named after her aunt, Mrs. William King,
Ann Frazier. She afterwards married Mr. Bridge.

Footnote 13:

Mr. Jewett married Sally Weeks, a friend and neighbor of the Misses
Southgate. He was a grandson of Aaron Jewett, who built the first
sawmill on Algers Falls, Dunstan, in 1727, and carried on what was
then considered an extensive lumber business.

Footnote 14:

Moses Porter was Eliza’s cousin. He was the oldest son of Mrs. Aaron
Porter (Paulina King).

Footnote 15:

Miranda and Arixene Southgate were at this time aged respectively
twelve and eight years. Their cousin Sally Leland was about the same
age. Frederic Southgate, born in 1791, became a tutor in Bowdoin
College, and died unmarried in 1820.

Footnote 16:

_Isabella Boyd_, second child of Isabella Southgate and Joseph
Coffin Boyd. She died of consumption, the fatal disease which
carried off so many of her aunts, sisters, and cousins.

Footnote 17:

_Rufus King_, oldest son of Richard King and Isabella Bragdon, and
brother of Mrs. Southgate. He was born in 1755 and married Mary
Alsop. He was delegated by the State of Massachusetts to the
Convention for framing the Constitution of the United States, was a
member of Congress from Massachusetts, Senator of the United States
from New York, and at this time Minister to the Court of St. James.

Footnote 18:

_Mary Alsop_ was born in 1786. She was the daughter of John Alsop
and Mary Frogat.

Footnote 19:

Mr. and Mrs. Southgate’s “profiles” hung in Mr. King’s house at
Jamaica until about 1875, when they were given by his granddaughter
to Mrs. Southgate’s grandson, Mr. Lawrence, of Flushing, L. I.

Footnote 20:

_Broads_, a tavern near Portland, to which gay parties of young
people went on frolics.

Footnote 21:

The manuscript which was under the seal was so torn as to make this
sentence illegible.

Footnote 22:

_Paulina Porter_, daughter of Dr. Aaron Porter of Portland. She
married, first Enoch Jones, and then Edward Beecher. Her sister
Harriet married Lyman Beecher.

Footnote 23:

_Miss Rice’s_ father was Joseph Rice; he raised a company of fifty
men and, after the receipt of the news of the skirmish at Lexington,
set out as soon as possible for Cambridge and joined Colonel
Phinney’s regiment. It was the first regiment that marched into
Boston after its evacuation by the British on the 17th of March,
1776. In a letter from Rufus King to Dr. Southgate, dated August 6,
1776, he says: “Phinney’s regiment is ordered from Boston to
Ticonderoga. I guess the pious Elder would as lieve tarry where he
is, but he was formerly fond of action—hope now he will be
satisfied.... Gen. Gates will doubtless make a stand at
Ticonderoga.”

Footnote 24:

Phippsburg.

Footnote 25:

This letter was never finished.

Footnote 26:

Mary King Porter (at this time twenty years of age) married Nathan
Coffin.

Footnote 27:

E. Hasket Derby, Jr., was born in Salem in 1766, and died in
Londonderry, H. N., in 1826. Mr. Derby married, in 1797, Miss Lucy
Brown. He was the son of E. Hasket Derby, who married Elizabeth
Crowninshield, a leading merchant of Salem, and founder of the East
India trade; known in the annals of Salem as “King Derby.” Mr.
Derby, the father, had four sons, who married and had families. They
were E. Hasket, Jr., just mentioned; John, who married Miss Barton
and secondly Miss Eleanor Coffin; E. Hersey, who married Miss Hannah
Brown Fitch; and Richard C., who married Miss Martha Coffin. The
father of E. Hasket Derby, Sen., was Richard Derby, merchant, a
delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774–5.

Footnote 28:

The Rumford kitchen or Roaster was invented by Benjamin Thompson
(Count Rumford), a native of Salem. Mr. Thompson, after passing
through various phases of existence, went to Bavaria, where by his
powers of pleasing and wonderful inventive faculties he attracted
the attention of the king, and by him was created Count Rumford. One
of Count Rumford’s particular studies was the laws which govern heat
and cold, and to him we are indebted for great improvement in our
chimneys, fireplaces, and kitchen ranges. Before his time all
cooking was done over an open wood fire. In the “Life of Count
Rumford,” by Ellis, page 240, we find the following: “The Roaster,
if not the first, was the most simple, ingenious, and effective
apparatus of the kind which, by its arrangement of flues for
conveying hot air around the food in the oven as well as by
economizing fuel, allowed of the preparation of many articles by one
fire, and greatly facilitated the labors and added to the comfort of
the cook. They were especially popular in Salem, where many of the
flourishing citizens had occasion to recall over their dinners the
‘apprentice boy in Mr. Appleton’s shop.’”

Footnote 29:

Mme. Milliken, probably the daughter of John Ayer. She was the wife
of John Milliken of Boston.

Footnote 30:

Dr. Southgate’s family resided at Leicester.

Footnote 31:

Woburn.

Footnote 32:

Billerica.

Footnote 33:

Dracut.

Footnote 34:

_Francestown_, named so after Gov. Wentworth’s wife.

Footnote 35:

Lady Nesbert, wife of Sir John Nesbert, celebrated for a race ridden
against John Randolph in 1719.

Footnote 36:

Joseph Allston, of South Carolina, had married, February 2, 1801,
Theodosia Burr, only daughter of Aaron Burr.

Footnote 37:

This was Mr. William Constable, who married, February 26, 1810, Miss
Mary Elizabeth McVickar, daughter of John McVickar, Esq.

Footnote 38:

The Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer had lately married his second
wife, Cornelia Patterson. Miss Southgate spelt the name as it was
then usually pronounced.

Footnote 39:

Rensselaer Westerlo and his sister Catherine Westerlo, who
afterwards married Mr. Woodworth. Their mother was Catherine
Livingston, oldest daughter of Philip, commonly known as the
“Signer,” he having been one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Miss Livingston had first married Stephen Van
Rensselaer, Patroon of the Manor, and by him had had three children:
Stephen, who succeeded his father; Philip, mayor of the city of
Albany; and a daughter. Mrs. Van Rensselaer remarried Dominie
Westerlo.

Footnote 40:

Walsh (?).

Footnote 41:

Oliver Kane, a merchant of New York. He married, at Providence,
Rhode Island, May 22, 1803, Miss Ann Eliza Clarke, daughter of John
Innes Clarke.

Footnote 42:

James G. King.

Footnote 43:

General Henry Knox was a general in the American army during the
Revolution. He entered it at the beginning of the war as a captain
of the Boston Grenadiers. He was the first Secretary of War of the
United States. He married the daughter of Secretary Flucker. General
and Mrs. Knox grew to be enormously stout and were perhaps the
largest couple in the city of New York at the time when Washington
was inaugurated as first President of the United States. General
Knox’s home was at Thomaston, Maine.

Footnote 44:

General Pinckney of South Carolina had served in the American army.
He had two daughters, one of whom married Col. Francis K. Huger.

Footnote 45:

Hodgkinson made his first appearance in New York as _Vapid_. He was
born in Manchester, England, 1767; his father was an innkeeper named
Meadowcraft. Young Meadowcraft ran away from home, took the name of
Hodgkinson, and joined the stage. His wife, to whom he was married
on his arrival in America, by Bishop Moore, was Miss Brett of the
Bath Theatre. She died in New York of consumption, September, 1803.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodgkinson received $100 a week for their services,
which was the highest amount yet paid to any two performers in
America.

Footnote 46:

This Joseph Jefferson was the grandfather of the present Joseph
Jefferson.

Footnote 47:

Mr. and Mrs. William Codman. Mrs. Codman was a Miss Coffin. William
Codman had at that time an insurance office at No. 28 South Street,
New York.

Footnote 48:

Mrs. Henderson and Miss Denning were daughters of William Denning, a
well-known New York merchant.

Footnote 49:

_Columbia Gardens_ were on the corner of Broadway and Prince Street.

Footnote 50:

_Mt. Vernon_ Gardens, afterwards called Contois’s Gardens, were on
the northwest corner of Broadway and Leonard Street.

Footnote 51:

Mrs. Delafield was a Miss Hallett. She married, December 11th, 1784,
Mr. John Delafield, an Englishman, who had arrived in New York in
1783. They had twelve children. Among them were Major Joseph
Delafield, who married Miss Livingston; Mr. Rufus Delafield married
Miss Bard; Dr. Edward Delafield married Miss Floyd; Henry Delafield
married Miss Munson.

Footnote 52:

_Malbone_, a celebrated miniature painter. He was born at Newport,
Rhode Island, and when very young showed great taste for painting.
He travelled about the then known portions of the United States,
painting portraits of people in Charleston, Boston, Philadelphia,
New York, etc., many of which are now in existence. His price for
painting a head was $50. He died of consumption in Savannah, May 7,
1807, in the thirty-second year of his age.

Footnote 53:

Lucia, Zilpah, and John were the children of Genl. Peleg Wadsworth.
Zilpah afterwards married Stephen Longfellow, and was the mother of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Genl. Wadsworth lived at Hiram, on the
Saco River.

Footnote 54:

Dr. William Moore was a celebrated physician of New York. He married
Miss Sarah Fish and had by her a numerous family. Among them being
Nathaniel Moore, President of Columbia College, and Dr. Samuel
Moore, also a favorite physician.

Footnote 55:

He was returning from his mission in London, where he had been
Minister to the Court of St. James from the United States.

Footnote 56:

Nicholas Low, a merchant in New York. Among his descendants are Mrs.
Eugene Schuyler and the wife of M. Waddington, at present ambassador
to the Court of St. James from France.

Footnote 57:

Mr. Watson was at this time a widower with one son, James Watson.
This son became a great beau in New York society, but died unmarried
and insane.

Footnote 58:

William Henderson, who had married Sarah Denning.

Footnote 59:

George III of England.

Footnote 60:

Bethlehem. This is a place originally settled by a religious sect
called Moravians. They were famous for their schools,—one for boys
kept by the Brothers, and a girls’ school kept by the Sisters. Young
ladies were sent to Bethlehem from New York, Philadelphia, and
distant parts of the country, to receive their education at this
place. In a letter from John Adams to his daughter, dated Monday,
Feb. 10th, 1823, he speaks of it: “I have seen a remarkable
institution for the education of young ladies at Bethlehem. About
120 of them live under the same roof. They sleep all together in the
same garret. I saw 120 beds in two long rows in the same room. The
beds and bedclothes were all of excellent quality and extraordinary
neat. How should you like to live in such a nunnery?”

Footnote 61:

The yellow fever having broken out in New York, the city was
deserted by all who could leave it. Even the business was transacted
in the neighboring village of Greenwich, which is now incorporated
in the city itself and its boundaries lost in the surrounding
streets. The following advertisements have been copied from the
“Evening Post,” Thursday, Aug. 25, 1803, as being of interest, as
the advertisers were not only well-known New Yorkers, but personal
friends of Mrs. Bowne:—

Woolsey & Rogers’ Counting House is removed to No. 28 Courtlandt
Street.

REMOVAL. William Codman has removed his Counting House to the N. E.
corner room in the 2nd Story of the City Hotel, Broadway.

John G. Bogart, Attorney at law & Notary Public, has Removed his
office to the House of Judge Livingston, No. 37 Broadway, near the
Custom House.

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:

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:

Miss Fairlee was the daughter of Major Fairlee of the British army,
who was a noted wit. Many anecdotes are told of his odd sayings. One
of them was, that being on his death-bed he was told by his
physician to take yeast as medicine. “What for?” said the Major; “to
make me rise?” Miss Fairlee married Cooper the actor.

Footnote 92:

The wife of the French General Moreau. They came to the United
States in 1805, but he returned to fight with the Allies, and was
killed in 1813, some say by a bullet aimed by Napoleon himself.

Footnote 93:

Mrs. Stevens was Miss Rachel Coxe, of Philadelphia, and had married
Colonel Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Footnote 94:

Miss Lyde married Jonathan Ogden. Among her children were Mrs.
Robert Goelet, Mrs. Dominick Lynch Lawrence, and Mrs. Joseph Ogden.

Footnote 95:

Mrs. John Lawrence.

Footnote 96:

Ralph Izard and his wife, the granddaughter of Etienne de Lanci, a
Huguenot nobleman who came to this country in 1686. Mr. Izard had
been appointed Commissioner from Congress to the grand-duchy of
Tuscany, and had performed other important diplomatic services. He
was one of the first United States senators from South Carolina.
Mrs. Mannigault’s husband was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Izard.
She was related to the Misses Watts of New York, and for their sake
was particularly attentive and kind to their friend Mrs. Bowne. Mr.
and Mrs. Heyward were the parents of the celebrated beauty Miss
Elizabeth Heyward, who married James Hamilton.

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