The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

Letters From an American Farmer



  • Letter I - Introduction


  • Letter II - On The Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures, of an American Farmer


  • Letter III - What Is An American


  • Letter IV - Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants


  • Letter V - Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket


  • Letter VI - Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard; and of the Whale Fishery


  • Letter VII - Manners and Customs at Nantucket


  • Letter VIII - Peculiar Customs at Nantucket


  • Letter IX - Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene


  • Letter X - On Snakes; And on the Humming Bird


  • Letter XI - From Mr. IW--N AL--Z, A Russian Gentleman; Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request To Mr. John Bertram, The Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist


  • Letter XII - Distresses of a Frontier Man


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    Source:
    St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813.
    Letters from an American farmer : describing certain provincial situations, manners, and customs ... and conveying some idea of the late and present interior circumstances of the British colonies in North America / written for the information of a friend in England, by J. Hector St. John ...
    Published: London : Printed for T. Davies , 1782.
    Description: 8 p.l., 318 p. : fold. maps. ; 23 cm.