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(NEW JERSEY.) Kirkpatrick, Jane Bayard. Diary and commonplace book of a literate New Brunswick woman. [108] manuscript pages. 4to, original 1/2 calf, worn, front board detached; clippings mounted to front pastedown. Np, 24 March 1845 to 14 November 1847
Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick (1772-1851) was the widow of Andrew Kirkpatrick of New Brunswick, NJ. Her father John Bubenheim Bayard had been a delegate to Continental Congress; she still observed his birthday forty years after his death. By the time of this diary, she was 73 years old, and her son Lyttleton Kirkpatrick (1797-1859) had already served a term as mayor of New Brunswick. This diary is mainly concerned with her spiritual affairs, but makes frequent note of her family's activities. She notes the anniversary of her sister's death on 6 June 1845: "Here I am still spared, while my juniors are all taken." A particularly morbid closing entry lists all of the guests at her 1792 wedding, and observes that only four are still alive. She was the author of a posthumous book, "The Light of Other Days: Sketches of the Past, and Other Selections."
