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Description
Charles Beck wrote form Highland School to Sarah Sabina Kean, addressed to Butternuts, Otsego County, NY. He maintained his assessment of John Kean's academic weaknesses, but John has promised to study harder.
Author/Creator
Charles Beck
Recipient
Sarah Sabina Kean, formerly Sarah Sabina Morris, and later Sarah Sabina Baker (1788-1878)
Creation Date
9-23-1830
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Highland School, Cold Spring, Putnam County, NY
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 2, LHC Series 3
Recommended Citation
Beck, Charles. Charles Beck to Sarah Sabina Kean, September 23, 1830. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archive, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1830s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1830s/41
Rights
This collection is open to the public for research use. Copyright remains with Kean University. Credit this material. Personal photographs may be made for research purposes. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Lynette Zimmerman, Executive Director at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Exhibition Hall at lzimmerm@kean.edu.
Publishing Repository
Special Collections Research Library and Archive, Kean University

Collection
The Liberty Hall Collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other manuscript material of the Livingston and Kean families, dated from 1739-1847. The bulk of the collection is related to Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833). The Livingston and Kean families frequently corresponded and held accounts with other wealthy, prominent, colonial and early American families in New Jersey, especially Elizabethtown, Philadelphia, New York City, upstate New York, England, France, and Poland. A small portion of the collection includes correspondence with early Virginia families, unrelated to the Livingston and Kean families. The collection includes second hand accounts of enslaved people who were owned by the Kean and other families, offering a glimpse into their forced work and places of residence.