Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771

Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew, My dissolution is in view The shuttle's thrown, my race is run, My sun is set, my work is done; My span is out, my tale is told, My flowe...

Last Thursday I din'd with unkle Storer, & family at aunt Sukey's--all well except Charles Storer who was not so ill but what, _that_ I mean, he din'd with us. Aunt Suky's Charl...

I hope aunt wont let me wear the black hatt with the red Dominie--for the people will ask me what I have got to sell as I go along street if I do. or, how the folk at Newgui nie...

4th.--From June 1 when I wrote last there has nothing extraordinary happen'd till today the whole regiment muster'd upon the common. Mr Gannett, aunt & myself went up into the c...

"Lucinda was born in Africa and purchased by M^rs Deming when she was about seven years of age. She was cherished with care and affection by the family, and at Mrs. Demings deat...

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 20765-h.htm or 20765-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/6/...

Master Turner was William Turner, a fashionable dancing master of Boston, who afterward resided in Salem, and married Judith, daughter of Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem,...