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Collection: HUTCHISON, SUSAN DAVIS NYE, DIARIES
North Carolina (Raleigh, Salisbury, Mf.P. 96.1
Charlotte)
Georgia (Augusta)
New York (Amenia)
1815, 1826-1834 , 1836-1840, [1841, 1846-1867]
Physical Description: P.C. (3 items)— original diary with typescript;
typescript (55 pp.) of excerpts from "volume” on microfilm.
Microfilm (1 item) — bound typescripts (280 pp.) of entries in original
diaries.
Acquisition: Items described above for "P.C." received as a loan from
Robert Stuart Hutchison, attorney and grandson of Susan D. Nye
Hutchison,
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E . , Charlotte, N.C. 28203, July 16, 1968.
Item on microfilm loaned by Mr. Hutchison, July 21, 1968, and returned
after filming.
Description: Susan Davis Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was born in Amenia
near Poughkeepsie, New York. In the spring of 1815 she came to Raleigh
to take charge of the female department of the Raleigh Academy. Seven
years later she resigned and moved to Augusta, Ga., where she opened a
school. In 1825 she married Adam Hutchison, n widowed merchant with
three children. She bore four sons (Silvanus, Ebenezer, Adam, and John
Grey)- Her husband lost his property trading in cotton, and she reopened
her school. In the fall of 1833 Mrs. Hutchison returned to Amenia while
Mr. Hutchison went to Florida for his health and died there in 1834.
In 1835 she returned to North Carolina, teaching first in Raleigh, where
the Raleigh Star noted her zeal, kindness to her pupils, untiring
diligence, acquaintance with polite literature, Christian tendencies,
and wise counsel. After a year she moved to Salisbury and later to
Charlotte where she had schools. In 1838 she prepared a 31-page memorial
to the General Assembly on female education [see LP 553]. After teaching
in Concord, N.C., in 1846 she returned to Amenia and died there in 1867.
The diarist — remarkably faithful to daily entries in her journals —
writes of journeys, social life, church activities, new friends, the lives
of her children, the problems with her step-children and husband, her
reading, memories of a voyage, her pupils, the frequent fires, festivities,
holidays, visits to such as the Charlotte Mint and the Baker mine, rumors
of insurrections, current events, etc. This extraordinary woman gives
every evidence throughout the diaries of being able to cope with adversity.
