Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746-1793)
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02444
- Given Name
- Jonathan Dickinson
- Family Name
- Sergeant
- Alternate Name
- Jonathan Sergeant Jr
- Birth Date
- 1746
- Death Date
- 1793
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Legal
- Biographical Description
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Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant was an attorney and politician during the Revolutionary era. He was the son of Jonathan Sergeant and Abigail Dickinson. He was the grandson of Princeton University's first president Jonathan Dickinson, and he graduated from Princeton in 1762. He went on to become a New Jersey delegate to the Second Continental Congress and then served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
In 1766, Sergeant facilitated the sale of 6 enslaved persons in Princeton for the estate of the late Samuel Finley, Princeton's fifth president. - Keywords
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- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- agent on behalf of enslaver
- Places
- Princeton
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Alumnus
- Child of
- Jonathan Sergeant (1712-1776)
- Related Person
- Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747)
- References
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This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Dickinson_Sergeant
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sergeant-111 - Image Rights and Source
- Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), Class of 1762, A.M. 1765. Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1786. Princeton University Art Museum, object number PP164 https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/45168
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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- Slave sale ad for Two Women, a Man, and Three Children, to be sold at public auction for the estate of Samuel Finley in Princeton (Slave sale ad for Two Women, a Man, and Three Children, to be sold at public auction for the estate of Samuel Finley in Princeton, "TO BE SOLD," Pennsylvania Journal, July 31, 1766, p. 3.)
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