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Title	School composition, Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, about her residence
Creator	Hasbrouck, Sarah Maria, 1823-1858
Date.Original	1835-07-15
Description	Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, wrote this composition about her residence at Locust Lawn while she was attending the New Paltz Academy. In this composition Sarah Maria describes her residence and the surrounding area in detail. She writes about the road (now Route 32), trees and plants that can be found around the house. This composition is unedited, another writing also describing her residence was found at the end of her composition book with several grammatical changes.; Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, the first child of Levi and Hylah Hasbrouck, was born on November 12, 1823. Sarah Maria was one of the first classes at the New Paltz Academy which was founded in 1833. She attended the Academy when she was 12 years old. Her composition books are beautifully written and describe in great detail trips abroad that she may have taken when she was very young, although it is unclear when and with whom she traveled. In 1850, at the age of 27, she married Louis Hasbrouck (her father Levi's cousin). Louis was employed by his father-in-law to manage investments and other business matters. The couple relocated to the town of Ogdensburg, in upstate New York, where they raised three children. Sarah Maria Hasbrouck died of typhus fever in 1858, when she was 35 years old.
Subject.LCSH	Huguenots;
Subject.TGM	Boarding schools Education Schools
Subject.Local	Hasbrouck family
Personal Name	Hasbrouck, Sarah Maria, 1823-1858
Corporate Name	The Academy (New Paltz, N.Y.)
Location	New Paltz - Ulster County - New York Gardiner - Ulster County - New York
HRVH Topic	Education People Women
Language	eng
Format.Original	school composition; ink on lined paper ; 10.883 x 8.265 in. (27.64 x 20.99 cm.)
Resource Type	text
Source	Locust Lawn Farm
Donor	Young, Annette Innis, 1885-1975
Resource Identifier	SarahMariaComposition.jpeg
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2008-05-02
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/notiontosew
Digital Collection	A Notion to Sew
Holding Institution	Locust Lawn Farm
Contact Information	2683 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 http://www.lgny.org
Rights	Locust Grove holds copyright and reproduction rights. Permission for reproduction required.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTEK 9800XL; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; 24 bit color; 600 ppi; RGB; 97,159,500 bytes: 4959x6503 pixels; no compression
Translation	It is again time to hand in our composition and I have concluded to give a description of my home and I hope this subject will be as acceptable to my teacher as any. I live in a white two story frame building with green blinds. It is very pleasantly situated on a small hill on the east bank of a branch of the Wallkill. It has a very large and pleasant yard in front which is surrounded by a white picket fence. It contains several fruit trees such as cherry, plum and peach trees and it also has a couple of locust trees in it. It also has several different kinds of shrubbery in it such as rose bushes &c. On the small stream near the is built a sawmill and a gristmill. Just in front of the house is the main road between New Burgh and New Paltz. It is much travelled by persons in all kinds of business. On the north side of the of the house is a garden which produces several kinds of vegetables and different sorts of flowers. The house has several outhouses around it and on the other side of the road there is a small house which is painted white and is now inhabited by a man who is a miller. There is also a small house situated on a hill on the other side of the creek there now lives in it a poor man and his family. When the creek is high the roaring of the waters can be distinctly heard from the house. Whatever other people think of my home I think it is a very pleasant one and I wish I could be there today. Sarah Maria Hasbrouck
Metadata Creator	Hurlburt, Ashley

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