Chronicles of a Pioneer School

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Editor

Buel, Elizabeth C. Barney (Elizabeth Cynthia Barney), 1868-1943

Title

Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school

Original Publication

Cambridge: University Press, 1903.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

LD: Education: Individual institutions: United States

Subject

Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.) -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77854

Release Date

February 3, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHRONICLES OF A PIONEER SCHOOL From 1792 to 1833 BEING THE HISTORY OF MISS SARAH PIERCE AND HER LITCHFIELD SCHOOL
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ANCESTRY OF MISS PIERCE.
4. 4.1792–1793. CONTEMPORARY NOTICES OF MISS PIERCE AND HER SCHOOL.
5. 5.1796. CHARLOTTE SHELDON—HER DIARY.
6. 6.1797. JULIA COWLES—HER DIARY. [8]
7. 7.1798. SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR BUILDING FIRST ACADEMY. [9]
8. 8.1801–1868. LITCHFIELD AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. — POND LILY. — BANTAM LAKE. (GREAT POND, SO CALLED) — THE AERIAL PHAETON. [18] — DRESSING IN MOURNING.
9. 9.1801. LUCY SHELDON—HER DIARY. — LUCY SHELDON’S JOURNAL FOR THE WINTER 1803 — EXTRACTS FROM HER COMMONPLACE BOOK.
10. 10.1802. MARY ANN BACON—HER JOURNAL. — “MARY ANN BACON’S JOURNAL” WRITTEN IN THE 15 TH YEAR OF HER AGE. — A COMPOSITION WRITTEN AT LITCHFIELD.
11. 11.1805.
12. 12.1811–1820. — PRIZE — PRIZE — REPORT OF JUDGES FOR PRIZE OF MERIT. — PLAYS BY MISS SARAH PIERCE. — RUTH. — THE TWO COUSINS. — JEPHTHAH’S DAUGHTER. [39] — SONG. STRIKE THE CYMBAL. — MRS. STOWE’S REMINISCENCES IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LYMAN BEECHER. [40]
13. 13.1814. RULES FOR THE SCHOOL AND FAMILY. — QUESTIONS.
14. 14.1815–1816. CATHERINE CEBRA WEBB—HER DIARY. — CAROLINE CHESTER—HER DIARY—EXTRACTS FROM HER COMMONPLACE BOOK. — DIARY. — CAROLINE CHESTER—HER COMMONPLACE BOOK. [42]
15. 15.1816–1818. ELIZA OGDEN—HER JOURNAL. — JOURNAL FOR THE WINTER. — JOURNAL FOR THE SUMMER OF 1817. — “COPIES” FROM ELIZA OGDEN’S COPY BOOK.
16. 16.1818. ADDRESS AT THE CLOSE OF SCHOOL, OCTOBER 29, 1818. — CONNECTION OF REV. LYMAN BEECHER WITH THE SCHOOL.
17. 17.1819. [ Copy of School bill of Annie Chester. 1819. [47] ]
18. 18.1820. GEORGE YOUNGLOVE CUTLER—HIS JOURNAL. — WRITINGS OF MISS PIERCE. — ADDRESS AT THE CLOSE OF THE SUMMER 1820. BY MISS S. PIERCE. — A FRAGMENT. — DIALOGUE BETWEEN MISS TRUSTY AND HER PUPILS. — THE MISSES LEWIS’ DIARY—EXTRACTS FROM COMMONPLACE BOOK. 1820. JANE LEWIS—HER JOURNAL. — REV. DR. BEECHER’S DESCRIPTION OF NIAGARA FALLS.
19. 19.1820. ALTERATIONS FROM COPY OF RULES OF JULIA SEYMOUR—1820.
20. 20.1821. SARAH KINGSBURY’S COPY OF RULES OF THE LITCHFIELD ACADEMY. — A DEFINITION OF POLITENESS.
21. 21.1822. MARY L. WILBOR (MRS. STONE)—EXTRACTS FROM HER DIARY.
22. 22.1825. MARY PECK—HER ALBUM. — EXTRACTS. — HYMN FOR A DYING BED. — THE RULES OF LITCHFIELD ACADEMY. 1825 — — CUSTOM OF EXCHANGING CHILDREN.
23. 23.1826. LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY
24. 24.1827. NOTES FROM THE RECORDS OF THE LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY. — LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY. — EDITORIAL NOTICE: — TRUSTEES’ NOTICE:
25. 25.1828. — NOTICE OF SEMI-ANNUAL EXHIBITION. “FEMALE ACADEMY.”
26. 26.1829. LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY. — “LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY.” — AN INDIAN BALLAD.
27. 27.1830–1897. REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS. — HARRIET WADSWORTH (MRS. KILBOURN)—HER REMINISCENCES. — LETTER FROM MRS. GEORGE C. SEELYE (ANN ELIZA JACKSON), GENEVA, N. Y., MARCH, 1897. — REMINISCENCES OF MRS. EMILY CHAUNCEY CURTIS, 1898. — LETTER FROM MRS. MARY HUNT (OVER NINETY YEARS OLD). — REMINISCENCES OF MISS FANNY LORD. — LETTER FROM MRS. ANNA M. RICHARDS. — RECOLLECTIONS OF SUSAN SPENCER. — FROM LETTER FROM MRS. CAROLINE SEDGWICK KNIGHT. — DR. JOSIAH G. BECKWITH—REMINISCENCES. — FROM A LETTER FROM MISS SARAH D. GARDINER. — REMINISCENCES OF MRS. A. S. FARNAM. — REMINISCENCES OF MISS ESTHER H. THOMPSON. — LETTER FROM MR. J. DEMING PERKINS.
28. 28.1831–1833. SCHOOL BILL. — FAREWELL ADDRESS ON LEAVING LITCHFIELD ACADEMY, OCTOBER 23, 1832. — EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS ON ASSUMING CHARGE OF THE HARTFORD FEMALE SEMINARY. — LITCHFIELD FEMALE SEMINARY. — LETTERS OF MISS SARAH PIERCE FROM 1802–1842. — LETTERS FROM MISS S. PIERCE TO MR. JOHN P. BRACE, HARTFORD, CONN. [78]
29. 29.1852. — OBITUARY FROM KILBOURNE’S “HISTORY OF LITCHFIELD.” — OBITUARY. [80] — SKETCH OF MISS SARAH PIERCE. BY MRS. ASA GRAY. — NOTES COLLECTED FOR MRS. ASA GRAY. [83] — SKETCH OF MISS MARY PIERCE. BY MRS. ASA GRAY. — FROM MRS. GRAY’S DIARY. — EXERCISES IN CHRIST’S CHURCH, CATSKILL, N. Y., JULY 18, 1875. — MEMORIES OF LITCHFIELD. — THE WOLCOTTS. — COLONEL TALLMADGE. — LAW SCHOOL. — MISS PIERCE’S SCHOOL. — LITCHFIELD HILL.
30. 30.APPENDIX A. — EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM COL. JOHN PIERCE. — ACCOUNTS AND MEMORANDA FROM JOHN PIERCE’S ALMANACH, 1776.
31. 31.APPENDIX B. — A FUNERAL SERMON PREACHED ON THE DEATH OF DR. TIMOTHY PIERCE BY REV. W. ROBERTS.
32. 32.APPENDIX C. POPULATION OF CONNECTICUT TOWNS.
33. 33.APPENDIX D. LIST OF PUPILS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL OF MARY ANN BACON. 1802. — STUDIES SPOKEN OF IN MARY BACON’S DIARY. — THE NAMES OF THE YOUNG LADYS IN LITCHFIELD SCHOOL JUNE THE 10 TH THURSDAY. 1802. — 1811. — NAMES OF THE YOUNG LADIES BELONGING TO MISS PIERCE’S SCHOOL IN THE SUMMER OF 1814. — 1816. — 1816. PRINTED CATALOGUE OF 1816 IN COLLECTION OF MISS MARY PHELPS. — 1819–20. LIST OF PUPILS. 1819–20. [119] — 1821. — 1822. LIST OF PUPILS FROM DIARY OF MRS. STONE (MARY L. WILBOR). — CATALOGUE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LITCHFIELD FEMALE ACADEMY AT LITCHFIELD FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 29, 1822. — 1823. — CATALOGUE OF THE LITCHFIELD FEMALE SEMINARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER, 1823. — 1825. — MARRIAGES. — CATALOGUE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LITCHFIELD FEMALE SCHOOL, FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 1, 1826. — CATALOGUE OF THE WINTER SCHOOL OF 1828. — CATALOGUE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1828. — CATALOGUE OF THE WINTER SCHOOL OF 1829. — CATALOGUE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1829. — 1830. CATALOGUE OF THE LITCHFIELD ACADEMY. 1830. — CATALOGUE OF THE WINTER SCHOOL OF 1831. — CATALOGUE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1831. — CATALOGUE OF THE WINTER SCHOOL OF 1832. — CATALOGUE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1832. — LIST OF PUPILS. (NO DATE.) [144] — LIST OF PUPILS. (NO DATE.) [144] — LIST OF PUPILS GATHERED FROM LETTERS AND OTHER SOURCES. — NAMES IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF JANE LEWIS. — NAMES IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MARIAN LEWIS.
34. 34.APPENDIX E. GENEALOGY OF MISS SARAH PIERCE. — PATERSON GENEALOGY.
35. 35.INDEX

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