Prince

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Identifier
NJS-PER-02409
Given Name
Prince
Sex
Male
Biographical Description
Prince was a Black man enslaved by Princeton University trustee William Peartree Smith in Elizabethtown (present-day Elizabeth), New Jersey. He ran away from Smith in 1758 and went to New York. Prior to living in Elizabethtown, Prince was enslaved by Simon Parsco in Jamaica and by a Mr. Nixon in Dutchess County, New York. He spoke both English and Dutch.
Keywords
African descent person
Princeton University history
Places
Kingsbridge, Bronx, New York (King's Bridge)
Jamaica, West Indies (Caribbean)
Dutchess County, New York
Elizabeth (formerly Elizabethtown)
Enslaved by
William Peartree Smith (1723-1801)
References

Michael R. Glass, "Princeton's Founding Trustees," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/founding-trustees.
Record Contributor
R. Isabela Morales
Princeton & Slavery Project
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