Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : $b being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school — John Shaqi
Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : $b being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school
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Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 : $b being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school
Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.) -- History
_Monday 19th_, Helped about house, knit. Parsed. Read in Coxes
travels, read in the Recess to Sally Tracy & mammy After school
dressed me and went to Mrs. Lords where I spent the afternoon &
evening
_Tuesday 6th_, Washed, Cleaned my chamber, finished my shawl, washed
and ironed it. The colors don’t fade. Helped get supper. Stewed some
currants. Learn’t one or two verses in a song, spent the evening at
Captains Catlins.
_Wednesday 21st_, Went to the Braces & helped clean the room to dance
in, Which took almost all the forenoon Went down in the lot after
bushes & fixed up the room Dressed & danced in the evening, had a
pretty agreeable ball.
_Thursday 22nd_, Parsed, Sewed. Went to strawberrying with Fanny
Pierpont, found a good many.
_Friday 23rd_, Put my closet to rights. Had an invitation to the ball,
spent the rest of the day in fixing my things. Went to the ball, had a
very agreeable one. Came home in the morning.
_Saturday 24th_ Felt pretty dull, Read the second volume in the
Recess, the language was pretty good, I like this volume better than
the first, Tho I think it is not possible, that any person could
suffer as many misfortunes as Ellinor & Matilda, I like the character
of Ellinor better than that of Matilda. there is something very
interesting in her character, I wanted to have it end happily. Went a
strawberrying with Susan Bird.
_Sunday 25th_, Read all the forenoon, Attended meeting in the
afternoon, heard a very poor sermon. Read in the history of Spain, I
think it a very good one, I do not know the name of the author. Picked
a large basket of roseleaves.
_Monday 26th_, Washed a little etc., Made a half handkerchief, took a
walk up to Captain Stantons. Read in the history of Spain translated
to the 15th page in Rousseau’s Emelias. Drew a rose, Read in the
history of Spain in the evening.
_Tuesday 27th_, Parsed. Sewed. Studied spelling. Spent the afternoon
at Mrs. Demings. Walked up as far as Captain Catlins.
_Wednesday 28th_, Fixed up my hat. knit. Drew a landscape. Parsed.
Read in the world. Went after straw berries.
_Thursday 29th_, Knit. Parsed. Studied spelling.
_Friday July 1st_, Sewed. Studied a parsing lesson. Parsed. Went twice
down to Mr. Shetaters, to buy pendals. Had my ears bored, not a very
agreeable operation. knit Read in Coxes travels. got tea, stewed some
currants. Took a walk as far as Mrs Lords.
_Saturday 2nd_, Read in the World. Sewed.
_Sunday 3rd_, Attended meeting in the forenoon & read in the Recess &
in the World in the afternoon Took a run up to Miss Pierces.
_Monday 4th_, Felt doubtful about going to the ball. Went over to Mrs.
Holmes of an errand. Studied a parsing lesson. Parsed. knit, concluded
to go to the ball, fixed my things to go. Went down to the Store
Dressed & went to the ball, had a very good one.
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