Page:Posthumous works, in prose and verse - Ann Eliza Bleecker.djvu/23

 MRS. ANN ELIZA BLEECKER was the youngeft child of Mr. BRANDT SCHUYLER, of this city, (the place of her nativity ;) ihe was born in O&ober, anno Domini 1752^ and though in her early years me never difplayed any partiality for fchool, yet fhe was paffionately fond of books, infomuch that fhe read with propriety any book that came to hand long before the time that children in common pafs their Spelling- Books. 'But though her poetical produc tions (which made their appearance very early) difplayed a tafte far fuperior to her years ; yet, fo great was her diffidence of B her