# A girl's life eighty years ago

Author: Bowne, Eliza Southgate, 1783-1809; Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76799

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## Summary

Eliza Southgate, the writer of the letters here collected, was the daughter of Robert and Mary Southgate, and was born in Scarborough, Me., September 24, 1783. She was the third in a family of twelve children. Her father came of English stock, and was born in Leicester, Mass., where his family had long been settled. Here he studied medicine, and when he had finished his course he left his native place, where there appeared to be no room for another practitioner, and settled in Scarborough. We are told that, after the primitive fashion of the time, he set out to seek his fortune on horseback, with all his worldly goods in a pair of saddle-bags. In this way he entered Scarborough, where his...

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- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-girl-s-life-eighty-years-ago-76799/chapters/1/index.md)
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