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Sarah Sabina Kean wrote to John Kean, her son, addressed to Highland School, Cold Spring, Putnam County, NY. She wrote to John primarily about his education and updated him on friends and family. She said Princeton College was his best prospect and a good college as it was attended by his father, Peter Philip James Kean, and many of his ancestors.
People Included: Sabina Cooper, Christine Alexander William Kean, Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean, Dr. Watts, Charles Beck, Dr. Berinans, Mr. Nobart, Dr. Stevens, Charlotte Stevens, Cousin Mary, Cousin Catherine, William Baker, Susan Ursin Niemcewicz, Mr. Chegary, William Palmer
Author/Creator
Sarah Sabina Kean, formerly Sarah Sabina Morris, and later Sarah Sabina Baker (1788-1878)
Recipient
John Kean (1814-1895)
Creation Date
10-26-1830
Document Type
Manuscript
Location
Ursino, Elizabethtown, County of Essex, NJ
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 2, LHC Series 3
Recommended Citation
Kean, Sarah S.. Sarah Sabina Kean to John Kean, October 26, 1830. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archives, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1830s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1830s/54
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 Archives, 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.