Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. то AMERICAN MOTHERS, whose intelligence and virtues have inspired admiration and respect, whose experience has furnished many valuable suggestions, in this work, whose approbation will be highly valued, and whose influence, in promoting the object aimed at, is respectfully solicited, this work is dedicated, by their friend and countrywoman, THE AUTHOR. |