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Sarah Bevier Bruyn
Other Name:
Sarah Amelia Bevier
Gender:
Female
Born:
March 23, 1797
Died:
1861
Home Town:
New Paltz, NY
Marriage(s):
Cornelius Bruyn (unknown)
Biographical Notes:
Sarah Bevier Bruyn was the youngest daughter of Philip Dubois Bevier and Ann Dewitt Bevier to attend Sarah Pierce's Female Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut. Little else is known about her life beside her marriage to Cornelius Bruyn.
Education
Years at LFA:
1813
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Henrietta Bevier Hasbrouck
Sister
LFA (1807,1809) - Anna Bevier Elting
Sister
LFA (Unknown) - Esther Bevier Hasbrouck
Sister
LFA (1800) - Hylah Bevier Hasbrouck
Sister
LFA (1811,1813) - Cornelius Bruyn
Husband - Rachel Bevier Hardenbergh
Sister
LFA (1800) - Ann Dewitt Bevier
Mother - Elizabeth Bevier
Sister
LFA (1807) - Philip Dubois Bevier
Father
Related Objects and Documents
Other:
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Letter, Julia Ann Crosby to Hylah and Sarah Bevier, 22 October 1813.
Secondary Sources:
Bevier, Katherine. The Bevier Family. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1916.
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