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Lucy Hedge
Gender:
Female
Born:
1800
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Montreal, Quebec Canada
Biographical Notes:
Lucy Hedge of Montreal, Quebec, was born in the year 1800. In 1816 her parents, Samuel and Marion Parsons Hedge, sent her to Litchfield, Connecticut to study at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy for two years. No other information is known about her life at this time.
Education
Years at LFA:
1816-1817
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Marion Parsons Hedge
Mother - Samuel Hedge
Father
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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:
A "Miss Hedge" is mentioned in Charlotte Smith's 1816 diary. This entry likely refers to Lucy Hedge (Connecticut Historical Society).
1816 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1816 List of Subscribers in II Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1817 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
Letter, Sarah Finkle, Nancy Waldo, and Minerva Finkle to Eliza A. Ogden, April 4, 1817 (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
1816 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1816 List of Subscribers in II Vol. "Universal History" (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1817 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
Letter, Sarah Finkle, Nancy Waldo, and Minerva Finkle to Eliza A. Ogden, April 4, 1817 (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy collection).
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