George Morgan (1743-1810)
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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-02462
- Given Name
- George
- Family Name
- Morgan
- Birth Date
- 1743
- Death Date
- 1810
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Colonel George Morgan was a white enslaver who lived in Princeton, New Jersey, during the Revolutionary era. He was born in Philadelphia and was a partner in the mercantile firm Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan in that city. In 1779, he purchased an estate called Prospect next to Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey), and he held several Black people in bondage there. He also employed free Black people as wage laborers at Prospect.
Morgan served as the United States Agent for Indian Affairs and maintained close ties with the Leni Lenape. He adopted a Lenape boy, George Morgan White Eyes, and facilitated the boy's admission to Princeton University. Morgan's sons John, George, and Thomas also attended Princeton.
The Prospect Farm property was sold after George Morgan's death and — after passing through the hands of the Craig and Potter families — it eventually became part of Princeton University's campus in 1878.
See the articles on the Princeton & Slavery Project website for more information about George Morgan and Prospect Farm. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Family (parent of student)
- Enslaver of
- Michael Hoy (b. 1740)
- Parent of
- John Morgan
- References
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Kathryn Fluehr, “Prospect Farm,” Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/prospect-farm.
Joseph Yannielli, "Princeton’s Fugitive Slaves," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/runaways.
Alfred L. Bush, "Indians, Slavery and Princeton," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/indians-slavery-and-princeton.
- Record Contributor
- Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Michael Hoy, by George Morgan (Runaway ad for Michael Hoy, by George Morgan, Pennsylvania Gazette, and Weekly Advertiser, May 31, 1780, p. 3.)
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1780-05-20 Freedom Seeking: Michael Hoy (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
