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(p.254)
"While speaking of this family, I may remark that the daughter,
whom we designated Green-stockings from her dress, is considered
by her tribe to be a great beauty. Mr. Hood drew an accurate
portrait of her, although her mother was averse to her sitting for it.
She was afraid, she said, that her daughter’s likeness would induce
the great Chief who resided in England to send for the original.
The young lady, however, was undeterred by any such fear. She
has already been an object of contest between her countrymen, and
although under sixteen years of age, has belonged successively to
two husbands, and would probably have been the wife of many
more, if her mother had not required her services as a nurse."
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