Peter Labagh (1773-1858)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-03249
Given Name
Peter
Family Name
Labagh
Birth Date
November 10, 1773
Death Date
October 25, 1858
Sex
Male
Occupation
Religious
Biographical Description
Rev. Peter Labagh was a Dutch Reformed clergyman. He was born in New York City and pastored churches in Kentucky and in Catskill, New York, as a young man. In 1809, he moved to New Jersey and took over the Reformed Church of Harlingen in Montgomery Township, Somerset County. He was elected a trustee of Queens College (now Rutgers University) in 1811 and served until his death in 1858.

Somerset County records indicate that he held people in slavery in the early 19th century while he was the pastor of the Harlingen church and a trustee of Queen's College.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Rutgers University history
clergy
Places
Harlingen, Montgomery
New York City, New York
Organization
Rutgers University
Relationship to Rutgers
Trustee (1811-1858)
Honorary degree (A.M. 1811)
Enslaver of
Sam (b. 1811)
References

John Howard Raven, ed., Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (Originally Queen’s College) in New Brunswick, N.J, 1766 to 1916 (Trenton: State Gazette Publishing Co., 1916), https://archive.org/details/catalogueofoffic00rutgrich. Page 13.

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Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9555633/peter-labagh
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