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Nancy Shippen Livingston

“I cannot have a more pleasing task than takeing care of my precious Child — It is an amusement to me preferable to all others ...”
- Nancy Shippen Livingston,
- 1783, in Ethel Armes, ed., Nancy Shippen: Her Journal Book (1935)

Nancy Shippen Livingston, U.S. diarist

(1763 - 1841)