Mary Deare (1786-1860)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-00752
Given Name
Mary
Family Name
Deare
Birth Date
1786
Death Date
1860
Sex
Female
Biographical Description
Mary Deare was the daughter of Jonathan Deare and Frances Phillips and the sister Middlesex County Clerk William Phillips Deare. She never married. She spent most of her life in New Brunswick and Princeton. She gave a scholarship to the Theological Seminary at Princeton.

Middlesex County records indicate that she was an enslaver.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Places
North Brunswick
New Brunswick
Princeton
Enslaver of
Caty
Ellen (b. 1812) {daughter of Caty}
Child of
Jonathan Deare
Frances Phillips Deare
Sibling of
William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
References

Hageman, John Frelinghuysen. History of Princeton and Its Institutions. Vol. 2. 2 vols. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Page 97. https://archive.org/details/historyofprincet02inhage.
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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