Absalom Bainbridge (1742-1807)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-02523
Given Name
Absalom
Family Name
Bainbridge
Birth Date
1742
Death Date
1807
Sex
Male
Occupation
Medical and Funerary
Biographical Description
Absalom Brainbridge was an enslaver who lived at the Bainbridge House in Princeton in the 1770s. He was born in Maidenhead (now Lawrence) in 1742 and graduated from Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) in 1762. After pursuing medical training in New York, came back to New Jersey to practice medicine in Maidenhead and then in Princeton, where he lived at the aforementioned Bainbridge House on Nassau Street. There he held in slavery a Black man named Prime. Bainbridge was a British Loyalist, and he relocated to Flatbush in Kings County (present-day Brooklyn) during the American Revolution in 1777, taking Prime with him. Prime ran away from Bainbridge in 1778 and eventually attained freedom for his patriotic service during the Revolutionary War.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Princeton University history
Places
Bainbridge House, Princeton
Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
Lawrence (formerly Maidenhead)
Princeton
Organization
Princeton University
Relationship to Princeton
Alumnus
Enslaver of
Prime (b. 1755)
Spouse of
Mary Taylor Bainbridge
Related Person
John Taylor
References

Izzy Kasdin, "The Manumission of Prime," Princeton & Slavery Project. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/the-manumission-of-prime.

Giles R. Wright and Gloria Halpern, “Prime: Another Resident of Bainbridge House,” Princeton History, no. 10, 1991.
Record Contributor
Indy Davis
Princeton & Slavery Project
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