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kindness. Sitting at table between Miss Wrag and her 

 mother, the young lady asked me to give her my candid 

 opinion of Slavery, which I did in kind but ingenuous terms, 

 saying at the same time that I should never have alluded 

 to it but for her request. She made no reply, but her 



countenance fell 



In the family of Mr. John Bowman, the late father of 

 Miss Lynch Bowman, my brother Gold S. Silliman, soon 

 after our leaving Yale College in 1796 i. e. in 1797 and 

 '98 was engaged as a family instructor, and remained 

 with them nearly two years. His pupils were three daugh- 

 ters and a son, who with the parents and a maiden aunt, 

 constituted the family. They all treated him most kindly, 

 and, in a dangerous sickness of yellow fever, affectionately. 

 The family passed a part of the summer of 1802 in New 

 Haven, when I was tutor in Yale College, and my brother, 

 then in Providence, R. I., consigned them to my care, 

 which was rather embarrassing, as I had no family to show 

 them civilities ; but I was very attentive to them, and the 

 more so as Mr. Bowman was not with them until late in 

 the season. The older ladies were most respectable ma- 

 trons the son and older sister eccentric and peculiar, 

 (she was afterwards Mrs. Bishop Gadsden). The youngest 

 sister, of fifteen or sixteen, was pretty and amiable ; but Miss 

 Lynch Bowman, of the age of eighteen, was the flower of 

 the family. She was a most beautiful and lovely woman, 

 with a winning grace in her manners which conciliated 

 every one, and quite charmed me, then twenty-two years 

 old. Her kindness (they were, as I have said, placed 

 under my care,) repaid me for my devotion to the family, 

 and I parted from them with regret, as I never expected to 

 see any of them again. On making inquiry, however, in 

 Charleston whpn I arrived there, I was pleased to learn 

 that the lady was living and well, and was very highly 

 esteemed. I sought her residence, and sent in my card 

 and waited at the door ; the response came quickly. I was 



