Samuel Ladd Howell (1787-1835)
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- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02650
- Given Name
- Samuel Ladd
- Family Name
- Howell
- Birth Date
- 1787
- Death Date
- 1835
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Agriculture, Forestry, and/or Livestock
- Biographical Description
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Samuel Ladd Howell (1787-1835) was an enslaver from Gloucester County, New Jersey. He was the son of Joshua Ladd Howell (1762-1818) and Anna Blackwood. His father owned thousands of acres of land in Gloucester County and Cumberland County, including a large estate on the Delaware River on the west side of the Big Timber Creek that included portions of modern-day Westville and West Deptford (then all part of the township of Deptford).
Howell was born at Ladd's Castle, also known as Candor Hall (an 18th-century house on the National Register of Historic Places in West Deptford) and spent his youth at his father's Fancy Hill mansion on the Delaware River. He attended Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey), but his studies were interrupted by a sickness of the eyes, and he did not complete his degree. He returned to Gloucester County where he became active in civil and political affairs in the Woodbury community. He lived on a farm called "Marlborough Farm" near Woodbury. He had at least one enslaved person on the farm named Turner Coxe and possibly others.
He eventually went on to receive a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1824, and in 1827 he moved to Princeton to practice medicine and teach. By 1830, he was a Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Princeton. He died in Princeton in 1835. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Princeton University history
- Organization
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Princeton University
- Relationship to Princeton
- Alumnus
- Instructor
- Enslaver of
- Turner Coxe (b. 1797)
- Child of
- Joshua Ladd Howell (1762-1818)
- Anna Blackwood Howell
- References
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Carpenter, Edward. Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1912. See "Howell, of Fancy Hill," pages 95-97. https://archive.org/details/samuelcarpenter00carpgoog/page/n131.
Candor Hall—John Ladd Family Genealogy. Gloucester County, New Jersey, History & Genealogy. http://www.nj.searchroots.com/Gloucesterco/ladd.htm.
Ladd's Castle. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladd%27s_Castle.
- Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Turner Coxe (original), by Samuel L. Howell (Runaway ad for Turner Coxe (original), by Samuel L. Howell, "Twenty Dollars Reward," Relf's Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser, February 2, 1818, p. 1.)
- Runaway ad for Turner Coxe (updated), by Samuel L. Howell (Runaway ad for Turner Coxe (updated), by Samuel L. Howell, "20 Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, March 2, 1818, p. 2.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-01-27 Freedom Seeking: Turner Coxe (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)