James Sproat Green (1792-1862)
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This white person has 3 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-04815
- Given Name
- James Sproat
- Family Name
- Green
- Birth Date
- 1792
- Death Date
- 1862
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- James Sproat Green was an attorney from Princeton, New Jersey. He was the son of Princeton University president Rev. Ashbel Green and Elizabeth Stockton Green. He appears as a witness on some of the slavery records filed by the Stockton family in Somerset County. He was one of the administrators of the estate of his uncle Job Stockton, who died in 1820, and, in that role, he facilitated the manumission of a man named Tom, who belonged to the Job Stockton's estate.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- executor or administrator for estate of enslaver
- Places
- Princeton
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Trustee
- Instructor
- Child of
- Ashbel Green (1762-1848)
- Elizabeth Stockton Green
- Related Person
- Job Stockton (d. 1820)
- References
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John Frelinghuysen Hageman, History of Princeton and Its Institutions, vol. 1 (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879). See pages 318-320 for the biography of James Sproat Green, https://archive.org/details/historyofprincet01hage/page/n349.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S._Green_(attorney)
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Green-32189
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95907035/james_sproat-green - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1820-08-26 Manumission: Tom (Role: Executor or Administrator)
- 1829-07-20 Manumission: Cate (Role: Witness)
- 1829-07-20 Manumission: Hannibal Simpson (Role: Witness)