John I. Craig
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This white person has 2 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-01333
- Given Name
- John I.
- Family Name
- Craig
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Agriculture, Forestry, and/or Livestock
- Biographical Description
- John I. Craig was an enslaver who resided in Princeton, West Windsor Township, NJ, in the early 19th century. He was a farmer. Craig was the owner of Prospect Farm at the head of College Lane, which he purchased in 1804 from Col. George Morgan. (Prospect Farm now forms a central part of Princeton University's campus.) Craig was one of the original incorporators of the Princeton and Kingston Branch Turnpike Company in 1807.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- References
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Brett Diehl, "Cezar Trent and Peter Scudder, Two Free Black Men in Antebellum Princeton," The Princeton University Library Chronicle 78, no. 1 (2020): 71–87. See page 81. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48693092.
Hageman, John Frelinghuysen. History of Princeton and Its Institutions. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Page 187, 211, 229. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x000666980?urlappend=%3Bseq=247%3Bownerid=27021597765045219-251.
Fluehr, Kathryn. “Prospect Farm.” Princeton & Slavery Project. Accessed April 15, 2023. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/prospect-farm.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1805-02-03 Birth: Elizabeth (Role: Enslaver)
- 1807-12-28 Birth: Maria (Role: Enslaver)
