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Jonathan Dickinson, a prominent figure in the Great Awakening of the mid-18th century, served as Princeton’s first president.  Genny, an enslaved girl he purchased in 1733, may have worked beside him and his students in the college’s earliest years.

Princeton-educated ministers and teachers established schools across Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia in the 18th and early 19th centuries.