William Peartree Smith (1723-1801)
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02414
- Given Name
- William Peartree
- Family Name
- Smith
- Birth Date
- 1723
- Death Date
- 1801
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- William Peartree Smith (1723-1801) was a wealthy enslaver from New York and one of the founding trustees of Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey). He moved to Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey, in 1758. He served as the mayor of that city from 1774 to 1776.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Trustee
- Enslaver of
- Prince
- References
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Michael R. Glass, "Princeton's Founding Trustees," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/founding-trustees.
Manuscript Group 1203, William Peartree Smith (1723–1801). Archival collection at the New Jersey Historical Society. https://jerseyhistory.org/manuscript-group-1203-william-peartree-smith-1723-1801/.
"Smith, William Peartree," The Occom Circle Personography, Dartmouth Library, https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/occom/ctx/personography/pers0788.ocp.html.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106783683
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-197279 - Image Rights and Source
- Portrait of William Peartree Smith by John Wollaston. Princeton University Art Museum. Object number y1966-20 https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/30239
- Record Contributor
- R. Isabela Morales
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Prince (updated with five pound reward), by William Peartree Smith (Runaway ad for Prince (updated with five pound reward), by William Peartree Smith, "RUN away on the 13th of August," New-York Gazette, or, the Weekly Post-Boy, September 18, 1758, p. 4.)
- Runaway ad for Prince, by William Peartree Smith (Runaway ad for Prince, by William Peartree Smith, "RUN away on the 13th of August," New-York Gazette, or, the Weekly Post-Boy, August 21, 1758, p. 3.)
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1758-08-13 Freedom Seeking: Prince (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)