Peter Stogdon (b. ca. 1760) {Stockton}

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Identifier
NJS-PER-04785
Given Name
Peter
Family Name
Stogdon
Alternate Name
Stockton
Birth Date
1760
Sex
Male
Biographical Description
Peter Stogdon (or Stockton) was a man of mixed African and European descent born circa 1760. He was enslaved by Robert Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey. Around 1780, during the Revolutionary War, Peter escaped from his enslaver and made his way to British-occupied New York City. He received a certificate of freedom from General Birch of the British Army. At the end of the war, he evacuated from New York to Nova Scotia, where he could live as a free man. When the British troops registered his embarkation from New York, they wrote down the name of a white British Loyalist "in whose possession" Peter was considered to be at that time; that man was named James Scott, and Peter may have been a servant to him.
Keywords
African descent person
Places
Princeton
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Enslaved by
Robert Stockton (1730-1805)
Related Person
James Scott (1748-1804)
Record Contributor
Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
Princeton & Slavery Project
Jesse Bayker
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