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This Hidden History was created by SCAD student Hannah Sears as part of her SCAD art history department coursework, with guidance from art history professor Holly Goldstein, Ph.D., in 2019.
The Jane Cuyler historical marker was dedicated in 2005. View the Jane Cuyler historical marker listing.
Figure 1. Jane Cuyler Historical Marker located on Bay St. in Emmet Park (Georgia Historical Society)
Figure 2. Southeast corner of Broughton St. and Bull St., location of the Cuyler home in Savannah and meeting place for Liberty Boys (Google Maps)
Figure 3. Foltz Photography Studio (Savannah, Ga.), photographs, 1899-1960. Georgia Historical Society. Adler’s department store on the southeast corner of Bull St and Broughton St, location of Cuyler family home
Figure 4. Graves of Jeremiah Latouche Cuyler (son of Jane and Teleman Cuyler), and wife Maragaret Clarendon Cuyler. Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah. (Photo courtesy Richard Jordan)
Figure 5. Map that includes Cuyler/Brownsville neighborhood in Savannah, next to Laurel Grove Cemetery, where Cuyler family plot is located (Google Maps)
Figure 6. Henry Bunner Cuyler, Cuyler descendent and a writer, poet, and artist. (Photo Courtesy of Charles Scribner, NY, 1899)
Figure 7. Liberty Boys marker located on northeast corner of Whitaker and Broughton, where Tondee’s Tavern once stood (Photo Courtesy of Hannah Sears, 2019)
Figure 8. The Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, where the Sons of Liberty plotted the Boston Tea Party (Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online)
Figures 9 and 10. Susie King Taylor School, Collaborative Collage with 5th Grader, Hannah Sears, 2019.
Figure 11. Map of marker (google maps)
Figure 12. Hannah Sears, Creative Component, Jane Cuyler Legacy, 2019.
I chose to do research on Jane Cuyler because after coming across her marker, she sounded like an incredible woman whose story had not received adequate public attention. Upon further reading, I found some essays that described her husband, Teleman, as a Revolutionary War Hero but then brushed over Jane. I knew then that I wanted to do what I could to make her story more visible.
Abbott, William C. New York in the American Revolution. New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1929.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. “Henry Cuyler Bunner.” Encyclopedia Britannica. May 07, 2019. Accessed May 20, 2019. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Cuyler-Bunner.
Champagne, Roger J. 1967. “Liberty Boys and Mechanics of New York City, 1764-1774,” Labor History 8 (2): 115. doi: 10.1080/00236566708584011.
Harden, William. A History of Savannah and South Georgia, Vol I: Chicago and New York, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1913.
Jeremiah LaTouche Cuyler military commission, MS 1587, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York---A History: New York, Scriber’s, 1975.
Killion, Ronald G., and Charles T. Waller. Georgia and the Revolution. Cherokee Pub. Co., 1975.
Moyer, Gail. The Life and Times of William Henry Cuyler. Special Collections. Lane Library. 1984.
Nicoll, Maud Churchill. The Earliest Cuylers in Holland and America: New York, Thomas A. Wright Printer, 1912.
Piechicinski, Elizabeth Carpenter. The Old Burying Ground: Colonial Park Cemetery: Savannah, GA: Ogelthorpe Press, Inc., 1999.
Weeks, Carl Solana. Savannah in the Time of Peter Tondee. Colombia, Summerhouse Press, 1997.
