Page:A cyclopaedia of female biography.djvu/712

 me to their publication, giving as a reason, that what had comforted me in my sore extremity, might comfort other afflicted ones, and it was with this hope and this idea that I first appeared before the public."

In 1840, Mrs. Dana's first work, "The Southern Harp," was published by Parker and Ditson, of Boston, and met with the greatest success; in 1841, she published a volume called "The Parted Family, and other poems;" and also "The Northern Harp." All of the works passed through several editions. In 1843. she published "Charles Morton, or the Young Patriot, a tale of the American Revolution;" and during the next two or three years, two prose ]] tales written for seamen, one called "The Young Sailor," and the other [["Forecastle Tom." In 1845, her largest prose work, entitled "Letters to Relatives and Friends" etc., was published in Boston.

Soon after her return home, Mrs. Dana removed with her parents to Orangeburg, a village about eighty miles from Charleston. Here her parents both died, in the summer of 1847, while she was absent on a tour to the North, undertaken on account of her health. Mrs. Dana, however, still continued to reside there, and in May, 1848, she was married to the Rev. Robert D. Shindler, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, to which church she was united some months after her marriage. In 1850, Mr. and Mrs. Shindler removed to Marlborough, Maryland, where they are at present residing.  SHIPLEY, LADY MARY, the daughter of James Teale, Esq., of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, and of Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Ralph Blomer, D.D.. one of the Prebendaries of Canterbury Cathedral, and chaplain to King Charles the Second The wife of this church dignitary was the daughter of Sir Anthony Archer, of Bishopsbourn, who, according to Camden and others, traced his descent back to Ancherus, first Duke and Earl of Kent, who defeated the Dames in 853; she consequently is in the relationship of grandmother to the subject of our sketch, Mary Teale, who was related either by blood or marriage with the Bullens, the Rawleighs, and other noble and illustrious families, was born at Canterbury in 1763, and married, in 1781, to Charles Shipley, a gentleman remarkable alike for his pure Saxon descent, his great abilities, and true nobility of character, Having studied military engineering at Woolwich, he received his commission at the early age of fourteen, and served at Minorca until the year 1778, when he returned home. In the year of his marriage lie was appointed ccunmanding engineer at the Leeward Islands; he conducted the defence of St. Lucia, and received the public thanks of his countrymen after the retreat of the Marquis Se Bouille. lie was again in England in 1792, and evinced his skill and science as an engineer by planning some of the most important fortifications of Dover Castle and Heights.

In 1794, at the request of Sir John Vaughan, commander-in-chief of the station, he was ordered to the West Indies, and embarked with his wife and family in a government store-ship, called the Woodley, in November of that year. The ship was a bad sailer [sic], sprung a leak, and dropped astern of the rest of the convoy; was nearly wrecked in a storm in the Mediterranean, but providentially found refuge in Gibraltar thirteen days after she left Plymouth