Ebenezer Stockton (1760-1837)
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This white person has 3 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-03503
- Given Name
- Ebenezer
- Family Name
- Stockton
- Birth Date
- 1760
- Death Date
- 1837
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Medical and Funerary
- Biographical Description
- Dr. Ebenezer Stockton was the son of Major Robert Stockton. He lived and practiced medicine in Princeton. He started his career in medicine during the American Revolution when, as a young man, he served as a Surgeon's Mate in the General Hospital of the Continental Army. He manumitted a woman named Matilda in 1830.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- executor or administrator for estate of enslaver
- doctor with Black patients
- Places
- Princeton
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Alumnus
- Enslaver of
- Matilda Stockton Thomas {Matty}
- Child of
- Robert Stockton (1730-1805)
- References
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"Ebenezer Stockton," The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire, https://www.socnh.org/ebenezer-stockton.
John Frelinghuysen Hageman, History of Princeton and Its Institutions, vol. 1 (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879). See biography of Ebenezer Stockton on p. 223-224, https://archive.org/details/historyofprincet01hage/page/n254.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stockton-2379
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235176721/ebenezer-stockton - Record Contributor
- Daniel Dias
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1804-09-14 Birth: Catharine (Role: Medical Provider)
- 1820-08-26 Manumission: Tom (Role: Executor or Administrator)
- 1830-04-16 Manumission: Matilda Stockton Thomas (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)