June 29 1776
Dinner and again at a propper Time
for them to leave their Work & again
at 8 in the Evening for each to repair
to their House after which no Noise is
heard-- Notwithstanding they have
So large a Family to regulate, Mrs Schu-
-yler also Seeth to the
Manufactoring of
Suitable cloathing for all the Servants all
of which is the Produce of their own Plan-
-tation in which She is helped by her
Mamma & Miss Polly --
the whole is done
with less Combustion & Noise than many
Families who have not more than 4 or
5 Persons in the whole Family -- what
makes this whole Family Seems ever to
be Still & Qquiet & Serene notwithstanding
its magnitude & the multiplicity of
Buisness which they have to transact*
* what added to my Surprise, after observing
the regulations of this Fami wonderfull
Family, was to understand that Mrs
Schuyler was born of & braught up in
a Rich & genteel Family in the
City
of York, where her Education must have
been So vastly different from & no way
connected with the Life &
Buisn which she now leads. nor doth
She now cast off the Mein & Behaviour
of the genteel bred Woman -- but the
whole Family live & dress in a very
genteel
mode manner, So far as gentility is
consistent with Reason--
*Mr &
Mrs Schuyler never inter Seem
always
to be at leisure & never disturb Company with
being busied & hurried more than if they had nothing
to do.