4Results for "Middlesex Gazette"
Stories
Peter Scudder
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Peter Scudder rose from humble beginnings to become a successful businessman and a notable member of the free Black community in Princeton.
The Potter Family of Prospect and Palmer Houses
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Prospect House and Palmer House, both now University properties, have deep links to the Potters—a slaveholding family with strong ties to Georgia as well as to Princeton and the College of New Jersey.
Escape from Princeton
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In 1819, Princeton Mayor Erkuries Beatty engaged a recent College of New Jersey graduate to recapture his runaway slave, Joe. The incident underscores the terror and uncertainty of enslavement in central Jersey.
Primary Sources
"A serious rebellion"
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A response to the 1817 riots at the College of New Jersey, printed in a Connecticut paper.