Robert Lenox
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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-02510
- Given Name
- Robert
- Family Name
- Lenox
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Banking, Insurance, and Commerce
- Biographical Description
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Robert Lenox was a wealthy New York merchant and a trustee of Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) in the early 19th century. He sold slave-produced products, such as Caribbean rum and sugar, in New York City.
The 1800 U.S. census noted that he had 4 enslaved people in his household in New York City.
He was a business associate of sea captain Joseph Clark and helped Clark search for a Black man who ran away in 1817. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Places
- New York City, New York
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Trustee
- References
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Michael R. Glass, "Slavery and the 1820 Trustees," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/slavery-and-the-1820-trustees
Robert Lenox, Advertisement, The Evening Post, 15 September 1803. Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/sources/ad-featuring-robert-lenoxs-extensive-products.
1800 Federal Census Entry for Robert Lenox. Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/sources/1800-census-entry-for-robert-lenox.
- Record Contributor
- Kayra Guven
- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Abraham Sherrit, by Robert Lenox (Runaway ad for Abraham Sherrit, by Robert Lenox, "Twenty Dollars Reward," New-York Daily Advertiser, July 8, 1817, p. 3.)
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1817-07 Freedom Seeking: Abraham Sherrit (Role: Agent for Enslaver)