Gilbert Tennent Snowden (1766-1797)
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This white person has 2 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
This person is related to Princeton University history. See our Princeton University research guide for more information about finding Princeton affiliates and campus locations in the New Jersey Slavery Records database.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00143
- Given Name
- Gilbert Tennent
- Family Name
- Snowden
- Birth Date
- 1766
- Death Date
- 1797
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Religious
- Biographical Description
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Gilbert Tennent Snowden came from Philadelphia to study at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in the 1780s. He served as a minister of a Presbyterian church in Cranbury, NJ, from 1790 until his death in 1797 at the age of 30.
On December 15, 1794, Snowden purchased an enslaved man named David from one Abraham Dean of Middlesex County, NJ. It appears that Snowden purchased David with the intention of liberating him. Four months after the sale, Snowden manumitted David, signing a deed of manumission on April 20, 1795. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- clergy
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Alumnus
- Enslaver of
- David
- Child of
- Isaac Snowden (1732-1809)
- References
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Robbins, J. Albert. “The Journal of Gilbert Tennent Snowden.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 14, no. 2 (1953): 72–90. https://doi.org/10.2307/26402828.
- Record Contributor
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1794-12-15 Sale: David (Role: Enslaver, Buyer)
- 1795-04-20 Manumission: David (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)