Betsey Stockton was an educator and missionary. She was born in slavery about 1798 and died 24 October 1865. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...

While a child, her owner Robert Stockton gave her to his daughter upon her marriage to Reverend Ashbel Green, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). She was temporarily sent to Green's nephew, the Reverend Nathaniel Todd, but returned to Green's household in 1816. In 1817 she was admitted as a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, and formally manumitted at that time. She remained as a paid domestic servant with the family, learned from reading in their library and home schooling by Dr. Green, and expressed a desire to go as a missionary to Africa. She also did some teaching at this time. Ashbel Green, D.D. (1762 - 1848) was an American Presbyterian minister and academic. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus mostly in the Borough of Princeton and partly in the Princeton Township in New Jersey, United States. ... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Manumission is the act of freeing a slave, done at the will of the owner. ...

She learned of plans by Charles S. Stewart, a student at Princeton Theological Seminary and friend of the Green family, to go to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) as a missionary. She expressed a desire to go with them. Dr. Green and her Sabbath school teacher wrote letters of recommendation to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was commissioned by the Board as a missionary, and became the first single American woman sent overseas as a missionary. Her contract with the Board and with the Stewarts said that she went "neither as an equal nor as a servant, but as a humble Christian friend" to the Stewarts, and provided that she was not to be more occupied with domestic duties than the other missionaries. The team set sail from New Haven, Connecticut on 22 November 1822 for a five month voyage. The Stewards and Stockton settled at Lāhainā on Maui. She was the teacher of the first mission school opened to the common (non-chiefly) people of Hawaii. She also trained native Hawaiian teachers who took over from her upon her departure until the arrival of another missionary. She returned to the United States in 1825 due to Mrs. Stewart's poor health. A version of her Hawaiian diary was published in the Christian Advocate by Dr. Green in 1824 and 1825. The steeple of Alexander Hall Princeton Theological Seminary, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the worlds leading institutions for graduate theological education and home of the largest theological library in the United States. ... The Sandwich Islands was the name given to Hawaii by Captain James Cook on his discovery of the islands on January 18, 1778. ... Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  Ranked 43rd  - Total 10,941 sq mi (28,337 km²)  - Width n/a miles (n/a km)  - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)  - % water 41. ... Sunday school, Indians and whites. ... Proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the first American Christian foreign mission agency. ... Nickname: The Elm City Official website: www. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lāhainā is a very popular tourist destination on Maui, resulting in a congestion of people and vehicles, although the ambience remains relaxed and casual Lāhainā is a town and census-designated place (CDP) located in West Maui, Maui County, Hawaii. ... Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727 square miles (1883 km²). Native Hawaiian tradition gives the origin of the islands name in the legend of Hawaiiloa, the Polynesian navigator attributed with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. ...

She stayed with the Stewart household until at least 1830. She taught briefly at an infant school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established a school for Indians at Grape Island, Canada, and then returned to Princeton, New Jersey in 1835 and taught in its school for blacks until her death in 1865. In 1840 she helped found Princeton's First Presbyterian Church of Color which in 1848 was renamed the Witherspoon Street Church. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates , Government Country  State   County United States  Pennsylvania   Philadelphia Founded Incorporated October 27, 1682 October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 369. ... Princeton, New Jersey, is the name of a section of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. ...

References

• Peterson, Barbara Bennett (2000). Stockton, Betsey. American National Biography of the Day. Retrieved on 2006-06-20.
• editors Wills, David W. and Raboteau, Albert J. (emeritus) (2000). Betsey Stockton’s Journal. African-American Religion: A Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents. Retrieved on 2006-06-20.
• Princeton History. Town Topics. (2006). Retrieved on 2006-06-20.
• Sarah Johnson and Eileen Moffett (Spring 2006). "Lord, Send Us". Christian History & Biography 90: 35.