Abraham Beach (1740-1828)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-00608
Given Name
Abraham
Family Name
Beach
Birth Date
1740
Death Date
1828
Sex
Male
Occupation
Religious
Biographical Description
Rev. Abraham Beach was an Episcopalian clergyman and enslaver. he was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1740. After his ordination in England in 1767, he came to work as a missionary in the area of New Brunswick and Piscataway in New Jersey. After the Revolutionary War, he went to pastor the Trinity Church in New York City, but it appears he continued to maintain a farm in the New Brunswick area while he lived in New York City. He was elected a trustee of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) in 1787. He was active in the diocese of New York until about 1813 and then retired to his farm near New Brunswick.

When the African Association of New Brunswick was established in 1817, Rev. Beach gave permission to his enslaved man named Cato to join the organization. Rev. Beach also became a patron of the organization himself, and his name appears on the 1817 membership roll together with Cato.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Rutgers University history
clergy
Places
New Brunswick
New York City, New York
Piscataway
Organization
African Association of New Brunswick
Rutgers University
Relationship to Rutgers
Trustee (1787-1825)
Enslaver of
Cato Beach
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Beach
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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  • Permission slip for Cato to join the African Association, by Abraham Beach (Permission slip for Cato to join the African Association, by Abraham Beach, March 1, 1817. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Unmarked folder with loose slips.)
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