Sarah Pierpont Edwards (1710-1758)
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02911
- Given Name
- Sarah
- Family Name
- Edwards
- Alternate Name
- Pierpont
- Birth Date
- 1710
- Death Date
- 1758
- Sex
- Female
- Biographical Description
- Sarah Pierpont Edwards was the wife of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). She spent most of her life in Massachusetts and lived in Princeton during her husband's very brief tenure as president in early 1758. At the time of her death, she 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
- Family (wife of affiliate)
- Parent of
- Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758)
- Spouse of
- Jonathan Edwards Sr. (1703-1758)
- References
-
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/11603 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker