Jonathan Edwards Sr. (1703-1758)
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02569
- Given Name
- Jonathan
- Family Name
- Edwards
- Birth Date
- 1703
- Death Date
- March 23, 1758
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Religious
- Biographical Description
- Jonathan Edwards Sr. (1703–1758) was the third president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was a minister in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, before he was appointed president of the college in 1758. He only served as president for 35 days before he died of smallpox. At the time of his death, he was the enslaver of at least two people, a married couple named Joseph and Sue.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Places
-
President's House (Maclean House at Princeton University)
- Princeton
- Stockbridge, Massachusetts
- Organization
-
Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- President
- Parent of
- Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758)
- Spouse of
- Sarah Pierpont Edwards (1710-1758)
- References
-
Richard Anderson, "Jonathan Edwards Sr.," Princeton & Slavery Project, https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/jonathan-edwards.
R. Isabela Morales, "Slavery at the President's House," Princeton & Slavery Project, https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/presidents-house.
Kenneth P. Minkema, “Jonathan Edwards’s Defense of Slavery,” Massachusetts Historical Review 4 (2002): 23–59, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25081170.
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Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1360 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker