Prince Saunders (1784 - 1839)

Born 25 Jul 1784 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States

Died 22 Jan 1839 at age 54 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Biography

Prince Saunders is Notable.

Prince Saunders was an American teacher, diplomat, and author. Saunders helped set up schools for African Americans in Massachusetts and also in Haiti, for King Henri Christophe.^[1]

Prince was born in 1784. Sources vary on his birthplace. He was the son of Cuffee Wells Saunders and Phyllis Hinckley. ^{[2] [3]}

He passed away in 1839. ^{[4] [5][6]}

OBITUARY - 28 Jun 1839 Hartford Connecticut, page 2^[7]

Prince Saunders, a notice of whose death was mentioned in a New York paper a few days since, and asking for information concerning him, was born in Lebanon, Conn., in February, 1785. His mother, who was formerly the slave of Charles Hinckley, Esq. deceased, is now living in Lebanon, at a very advanced age.

His father, Cuff Saunders, familiarly called Doctor Cuffe, went into the Revolutionary war with the late Doct. Philip Turner, deceased of Norwich, who employed Cuffe as an attendant in the hospital, where he acquired considerable skill, and used to practice physic after the war till he died. After the death of Charles Hinckley, his son Orimel Hinckley, Esq, removed to Thetford in Vermont, and took Prince, who was a favorite with him, and educated him at Dartmouth College. After Prince left College, he taught the colored school in Colchester Academy.

He then went to England, and was treated with much attention, and was introduced to the Royal Family. From thence he went to Hayti, and was made Bishop of Hayti by Christophe. Since then he has been appointed Attorney General of Hayti, where he died, aged 54 'years. Prince was an uncommon colored man, and had the best education the country could afford, and made good use of his advantages.

A brother of his is now living in Lebanon, and is quite an enterprising and respectable man, cultivating a good farm of which he is the owner. -Norwich Courier

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Saunders
2. ↑ Brown, Barbara and James Rose, Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900, published 2001, New London County Historical Society, p. 403
3. ↑ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/prince-saunders-1775-1839/
4. ↑ Extensive biography on Wikipedia.
5. ↑ "U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 50015 #360543Name: Prince Saunders; Event: Death; Death Date: Feb 1839; Death Place: Port Au Prince, Hayti; Newspaper: New York Evening Post; Publication Date: 8 Jun 1839; Publication Place: New York, USA; Call Number: 83432.
6. ↑ https://thedreamvariation.blogspot.com/2013/07/prince-saunders-and-haytian-papers-1816.html
7. ↑ Hartford Courant, June 28, 1839, Page 2. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/19620051/ : accessed August 27, 2023), clip page by user KazKozlowski