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Pierce, Sarah, 1767-1852

 Person

Biography

Sarah Pierce, also known as Sally Pierce, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 26, 1767, the youngest of the 7 children of Mary (Paterson) and John Pierce. Her mother died when she was 3 years old and her father remarried. At the death of her father, when she was fourteen, Sarah and her sister Nancy went to New York City for a formal education. In 1792 she started teaching girls in her home and by 1798 the school became so successful that an Academy building was built. Her nephew John Pierce Brace became the director in 1827, but she continued to teach, focusing on her favorite subject - history. Sarah Pierce died in Litchfield on Jan. 19, 1852 and was buried in the West Burying Ground

Citation:
Author: Lee S. Cook

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Babbitt family papers

1994-15-0

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2
Identifier: 1994-15-0
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the Babbit family, including Eleanor Babbitt (1898-1994) and Col. Samuel H. Fisher (1867-1957). Col. Fisher's daughter Margaret Crossette Fisher married Eleanor Babbitt's brother Theodore Babbitt on June 17, 1922, in Litchfield. The papers include photographs and documents pertaining to Sheldon Tavern; drawings, invitations, etc. from Lilac Hedges; legal documents; birth and marriage certificates; family photographs; papers pertaining to Eleanor Babbitt and the Aircraft...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1972; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1994

Anthony Kroll engravings

00-2002-45-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-45-0
Scope and Contents

56 impressions from a steel plate engraved by Anthony Kroll, "In memory of Sarah Pierce pioneer in the higher education of women from 1792 to 1833," undated. The engraving is based on an etching by Bernhardt Wall, who based his work on an art work by James Calvert Smith.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1996

Litchfield Female Academy collection

1890-07-2

 Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890

"Litchfield Hill" from Harper's New Monthly Magazine

00-2013-112-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2013-112-0
Scope and Contents

"Litchfield Hill," is an article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 2013-112-0, about the town of Litchfield during the Revolutionary War and some of its most famous residents from the later 18th and early 19th centuries: Tapping Reeve, Sarah Pierce, Oliver Wolcott, James Gould, and Benjamin Tallmadge.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: no date

Pierce family correspondence

1978-39-8

 Collection
Identifier: 1978-39-8
Scope and Contents The Pierce Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from the children of John Pierce and his first wife, Mary (Paterson) Pierce, as well as of his second wife, Mary (Goodman) Pierce. The collection documents events of national importance: John Pierce, a colonel and paymaster in the Continental Army, received letters from numerous correspondents concerning military, administrative, and political news of the American Revolution. Moreover, the Pierce brothers traveled...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1825; Other: Majority of material found in 1776-1825; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978

Lyman Beecher Stowe speech

00-2010-226-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-226-0
Scope and Contents

Speech delivered by Lyman Beecher Stowe at the celebration of Litchfield's bicenennial. He remarked on his ancestors and their connection to Litchfield and his appreciation of some of the memorable citizens of Litchfield, including Sarah Pierce, Charles Loring Brace, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Tapping Reeve, James Gould, and John Pierpont.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920 Aug 2