Schaw, Janet (d. around 1801)

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Schaw, Janet (d. around 1801)

Scottish travel writer. Born Janet Schaw between 1730 and 1737 in Scotland; died c. 1801 in Edinburgh, Scotland; dau. of Gideon Schaw and Anne (Rutherford) Schaw.

Resided briefly in Wilmington, NC; wrote Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774–76), which was a series of travel letters to friends in Scotland about manners and customs of North Carolina and conditions on plantations in Antigua.

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