ABSTRACT
“After a most affecting parting from my beloved brothers, sisters, and friends,” wrote Susan Nye Hutchison in her diary on 22 April1815, “and before the sun shone upon my dear native hills, [I] bade them farewell, perhaps forever!” 1 On this April morning, the twenty-five year old Hutchison left her parents' farm in the state of New York and traveled for three weeks by sloop, steamer, and stagecoach to her final destination in Raleigh, North Carolina. Like scores of other young Yankee women, she headed south to teach.
