Author: HAIGHT, Sarah
Biography:
HAIGHT, Sarah, formerly Rogers (1808-81: ancestry.com)
She published anonymously as "a lady of New-York." The daughter of Henry and Abigail (Smith) Rogers, she was born in New York NY on 21 May 1808. On 12 Dec. 1826 at the Presbyterian church of Setauket NY she married Richard Kip Haight (1798-1862), a merchant and traveller who became president of the Oriental Society of New York. They had seven children. Although the Preface to her Medley (1822) describes her suffering under a "distressing malady," in later years she accompanied her husband to Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Turkey--travels that she wrote about in Letters from the Old World (1840) and Over the Ocean (1846). She died at her home in New York, 2 East 15th Street, on 28 June 1881. (ancestry.com 6 Sept. 2025; Allibone; New York Herald 30 June 1881) HJ