Undergraduate Alumni Records, 18th Century, 1748-1799

Consists of personal files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University. Information in each file varies greatly but can include the names of relatives, notable achievements and news items, address updates, and obituaries.

Arrangement

The collection consists of four series: Series 1 contains files from 1748 to 1799; and Series 2 contains files from 1800 to 1899; Series 3 contains files from 1900 to 1920; and Series 4 contains files with unknown dates.

Collection Creator Biography:

Princeton University

The College of New Jersey was initially chartered in 1746. The first classes were held in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the parsonage of the president, the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson. Upon his death, the College moved to Newark, New Jersey, and was headed by the Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr. Since 1756, the College has been located in Princeton, New Jersey. For the first fifty years, nearly all College operations took place within Nassau Hall. Fires, fundraising difficulties, low student enrollment, and the Civil War challenged the vitality of the College in the early and middle nineteenth century, but the College grew vigorously under the leadership of President James McCosh, and it was renamed Princeton University in 1896. The Graduate School was established in 1900, although a limited graduate program had existed since the 1870s. Princeton enthusiastically supported the country (living up to its informal motto, "Princeton in the Nation's Service") during the First and Second World Wars, offering the expertise of faculty and campus space for training, as well as facilitating the early graduation of students so they could enlist. The post-World War II years brought dramatic changes to Princeton. The size and strength of the University's facilities and academic programs—especially for the applied sciences and public policy—were increased dramatically. Under President Robert Goheen, Princeton began to admit minority students in greater numbers in the 1960s and admitted women undergraduates in 1969. Today, Princeton is widely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.

Processing Information

Processing information for this collection is not currently available. Finding aid updated by Annalise Berdini in February 2018.

The card file of non-graduate students, known as the "non-graduate card file," is now located in Boxes 531-537.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

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Credit this material:

Undergraduate Alumni Records, 18th Century; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6395w983x

Location:

Princeton University Archives

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library

65 Olden Street

Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

(609) 258-6345

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Storage Note:

Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Boxes 1-63; 527-528; Non-graduate card file 531-537

Other Finding Aids

Series 2 is available at Alumni Files, 1748-1920: Series 2.

Series 3 is available at Alumni Files, 1748-1920: Series 3.

Series 4 is available at Alumni Files, 1748-1920: Series 4.

A searchable index of undergraduate alumni files is also available: Undergraduate Alumni Database, 1748-1920.

Subject Terms:

College students -- New Jersey -- Princeton.

Names:

Princeton University. Students.

Series 1: Alumni Files, 1748-1799

Ayres, Enos, 1748

Chestnut, Benjamin, 1748

Henry, Hugh, 1748

Read, Israel, 1748

Stockton, Richard, 1748

Thane, Daniel, 1748

Brown, John, 1749

Burnet, William, 1749

Hoge, John, 1749

Kennedy, Thomas, 1749

Moffat, John, 1749

Todd, John, 1749

Whittlesey, Eliezer, 1749

Bay, Hugh, 1750

Beard, James, 1750

Clinton, Alexander, 1750

Farrand, Daniel, 1750

Frelinghuysen, Jacobus, 1750

Mitchell, Simeon, 1750

Badger, Jonathan, 1751

Clark, Samuel, 1751

Gordon, Alexander, 1751

Henry, Robert, 1751

MacClintock, Samuel, 1751

Martin, Henry, 1751

Prime, Benjamin Youngs, 1751

Ross, Robert, 1751

Scudder, Nathaniel, 1751

Thurston, David, 1751

Clinton, Charles, 1752

Duffield, George, 1752

Halsey, Jeremiah, 1752

Livermore, Samuel, 1752

Low, Cornelius, 1752

Whitaker, Nathaniel, 1752

Wright, John, 1752

Browne, Daniel Isaac, 1753

Canfield, Israel, 1753

Harris, John, 1753

Harris, Robert, 1753

Houston, John, 1753

Jamison, David, 1753

McAden, Hugh, 1753

McKesson, John, 1753

Ogden, Lewis, 1753

Potter, Nathaniel, 1753

Sherman, Nathaniel, 1753

Shippen, Joseph Jr., 1753

Williams, Elijah, 1753

Woodruff, Benjamin, 1753

Woodruff, Joseph, 1753

Barrett, Moses, 1754

Chapman, Benjamin, 1754

Chapman, Benjamin, 1754

Ewing, John, 1754

Hait, Benjamin, 1754

Horton, Ezra, 1754

Kennedy, Samuel, 1754

Knox, Hugh, 1754

Mathews, David, 1754

Odell, Jonathan, 1754

Osborn, Sylvanus, 1754

Purviance, David, 1754

Ramsay, William, 1754

Reeve, James, 1754

Roots, Benajah, 1754

Sherman, Josiah, 1754

Shippen, William Jr., 1754

Smith, Thomas, 1754

Thomson, William, 1754

Wadham[s], Noah, 1754

Baldwin, Jonathan, 1755

Bradner, Benoni, 1755

Burr, Thaddeus, 1755

Case, Wheeler, 1755

Conklin, Benjamin, 1755

Crawford, William, 1755

Hanna, John, 1755

Laydekker, Gerhardus, 1755