Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00006
- Given Name
- Andrew
- Family Name
- Kirkpatrick
- Birth Date
- 1756
- Death Date
- 1831
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831) was a prominent New Brunswick lawyer and politician with deep ties to Queen's College (later Rutgers University). He enslaved multiple people in his household. In the first two decades of the 19th century, he manumitted several individuals.
Andrew Kirkpatrick was born in the area of Mine Brook in Bernards Township, Somerset County, and his family was associated with the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1775. In the 1780s, Andrew Kirkpatrick was a teacher at the Queen's College grammar school. In 1783, he was the first person to receive an honorary degree from Queen's College. In 1797 be became a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, and a year later he was appointed as a judge to the New Jersey Supreme Court. He served as the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1804 to 1825.
Andrew Kirkpatrick served as a trustee of Queen's College from 1792 to 1809. During his time as a trustee, he was instrumental in reviving the struggling college. He worked with the Reverend Ira Condict to raise funds for the erection of a new building for the college (now called Old Queens building). Andrew Kirkpatrick then sent his son John Bayard Kirkpatrick to study at the college in the 1810s.
Andrew Kirkpatrick's oldest son Littleton Kirkpatrick carried on his father's legacy in supporting the college; he served as a trustee of the college from 1841 until his death in 1859. Having no surviving heirs when they died, Littleton Kirkpatrick and his wife Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick left their fortune to the college. Their donation was used to build the Kirkpatrick Chapel on campus. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Rutgers University history
- Princeton University history
- Organization
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Rutgers University
- Relationship to Rutgers
- Honorary degree (A.M. 1783)
- Trustee (1792-1809)
- Instructor (Queen's College grammar school 1780s)
- Family (parent of John Bayard Kirkpatrick RC1814)
- Relationship to Princeton
- Alumnus
- Child of
- David Kirkpatrick Sr. (1723-1814)
- Parent of
- John Bayard Kirkpatrick
- Littleton Kirkpatrick
- Mary Ann Kirkpatrick Howe
- Sibling of
- David Kirkpatrick Jr. (1758-1828)
- Jennet Kirkpatrick Miller (1769-1836)
- Alexander Kirkpatrick (1751-1827)
- Spouse of
- Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick
- References
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This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kirkpatrick_(lawyer)
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757626
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kirkpatrick-2253
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72499821 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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Author:
- Permission slip for Samuel Lane to join the African Association, by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Permission slip for Samuel Lane to join the African Association, by Andrew Kirkpatrick, January 15, 1817. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Loose slip glued to a back page in the Minute Book.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1802-07-03 Manumission: Sarah (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)
- 1809-04-29 Manumission: Abraham Glasgow (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)
- 1817-01-15 Membership or Participation: Samuel Lane (Role: Enslaver, Permission Grantor)
- 1818-06 Criminal action: victims children Augustus, Diana, Diana, Dorcas, Harriet Jane, Hercules, Mary, Rozenah, Susan (slave trafficking case, defendants Charles Morgan and Nicholas Van Wickle) (Role: Judge)
- 1818-08-21 Manumission: Samuel Lane (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)