Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
A
NARRATIVE
OF THE
LIFE AND TRAVELS,
OF
MRS. NANCY PRINCE.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1850.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1850,
BY NANCY PRINCE,
In the Clerk's office of the District court of Massachusetts.
CONTENTS.
| A Sketch of the Early Life of Nancy Prince, | 5 |
| Marriage and Voyage to Russia, | 14 |
| Mr. Prince, | 16 |
| Manners and Customs of the Russians, | 18 |
| The Events that took Place During Nine Years residence in St. Petersburg, | 20 |
| Her Voyage Home, | 34 |
| Her Voyage and Business to the West Indies, | 38 |
| Her Errand Home, and Success, | 49 |
| Her Return Back, and State of things at that Time, | 51 |
| Description of the Country, | 58 |
| Embarkment again Home, and Deception of the Captain, | 68 |
| Cast away at Key West, | 69 |
| Arrival at New Orleans,—Scenes witnessed while there, | 70 |
| Departure from New Orleans, and arrival at New York, | 74 |
NARRATIVE.
As my unprofitable life has been spared, and I have been, by theprovidence of God, wonderfully preserved, it is with gratitude to myHeavenly Father, and duty to myself, that I attempt to give to thepublic a short narrative of my life and travels.
I was born in Newburyport, in 1799. My mother was the daughter ofTobias Wornton, who was stolen from Africa, when a lad, and was aslave of Capt. Winthrop Sargent; and, although a slave, he fought forliberty, and was in the Revolutionary army at the battle of BunkerHill. My grandmother was an Indian. My father, Thomas Gardener, wasborn on Nantucket; his parents were of African descent, and he diedof bleeding at the lungs, leaving my mother a widow the second time,with an infant in her arms. She then returned to Gloucester, her nativeplace. My mother soon married again her third husband, by whom shehad six ...