Richard Paterson
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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-02492
- Given Name
- Richard
- Family Name
- Paterson
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- Richard Paterson was a white enslaver who resided in Princeton, NJ, in the mid-18th century. He immigrated from Ireland. He established a general store in Princeton by 1750. His son William Paterson (1745-1806) attended Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) and became one of New Jersey's most famous statesmen of the Revolutionary era.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Places
- Princeton
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Family (parent of student)
- Parent of
- William Paterson (1745-1806)
- References
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Leonard B. Rosenberg, "William Paterson: New Jersey's Nation-Maker (1745-1806)," William Paterson University History. https://www.wpunj.edu/about-us/history/essay_williampaterson.html.
- Record Contributor
- Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Slave sale ad for a Black man and two Black boys, by Richard Paterson (Slave sale ad for a Black man and two Black boys, by Richard Paterson, "TO BE SOLD, By the subscriber, at private sale, the following houses and lots of land, in Princeton, in the Province of New-Jersey.," New-York Gazette, and the Weekly Mercury, January 30, 1775.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1775-01-30 Advertisement: Black man and 2 Black boys (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)