• Bustill
  • The Ancestry of Paul Robeson (Princeton Public Library)
    Paul Robeson's mother was a Bustill.
  • Conductors and Stations on the Underground Railroad
    Scroll down the page to find Joseph Cassey Bustill.
  • Cyrus Bustill
  • The Douglass Family
    From Africans in America, a companion to the PBS television series.
  • Mrs. N. F. Mossell
    From African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, a digital collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  • Negro Membership in the Society of Friends (Part Two) , by Henry Cadbury
    An article from the Journal of Negro History, v. 21 (1936), in four parts. FIND bustill and continue to Part Three to finish the story.
  • Philadelphia: Historic Sites
    See the Cyrus Bustill Marker (no. 3), and continue to Page 2 to see the Paul Robeson Residence (West Philadelphia).
  • Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 1898-1989
    The first African American female PhD. in the U.S. (among other firsts) was a relative by marriage of Gertrude (Bustill) Mossell. PDF format requires Acrobat Reader.
  • Sarah Douglass and Racial Prejudice within the Society of Friends (Margaret Hope Bacon)
    Lecture about Sarah Mapps Douglass, a granddaughter of Cyrus Bustill, includes additional information on the Bustill family.
  • Sarah Mapps Douglass (Voices from the Gaps)  
  • Tour Guide: African American Historic Sites, Burlington County, NJ
    Cyrus Bustill is discussed in the fourth paragraph.
• Lake
  • Aaron Lake, manumitted, 1815 in NJ
    A posting to the AfriGeneas Mailing List by Jim LaRue.
  • Lake Families of Somerset Co, NJ
    Another AfriGeneas posting from Jim LaRue. Aaron Lake, who served in the 127th USCT, was from Princeton. He enlisted 1 Sep 1864 in Company F, 127 USC Infantry, and was mustered out 8 Sep 1865. He died 29 Jan 1907 and is buried in Princeton Cemetery.
• Moss
  • African Americans and Princeton University: A History in Brief ( Tad Bennicoff, Seeley G. Mudd Library)
    Paragraph 3 contains the "first" of Joseph Ralph Moss.
  • A New Jersey Anthology (Table of Contents)
    Chapter 7 is the groundbreaking study by Simeon F. Moss, "The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866)."  First published in Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 3 (July, 1950), pp. 289-314.
  • A Princeton Pioneer (Mark F. Bernstein, Princeton Alumni Weekly)
    June 7, 2006 article, subtitled "When Joseph Ralph Moss ’51 broke through the color line."  Also available from Association of Black Princeton Alumni.  Includes information about Simeon Moss, with photo.
  • Simeon Moss: Military Decorations (The Rutgers Oral History Archives)
  • Simeon Moss, Rutgers College Class of 1941
    Transcript of an interview for The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II.
• Pannell
  • Class Project Brings Community History to Life
    Article from the December 11, 2000, issue of Princeton Weekly Bulletin includes information about the Pannell family.
  • Community Advocate Henry F. Pannell Is a Proud Third Generation Princetonian (Jean Stratton, Town Topics)
• Robeson
  • The Ancestry of Paul Robeson (Princeton Public Library)
  • Paul Robeson on the Web: Biography
    Many of the biographies also include information about Paul Robeson's parents, the Rev. William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.
  • Re: Robeson, Paul - Genealogy
    Submitted by Reg Pitts to the AfriGeneas Mailing List.
  • Robeson
    Genealogical information on various family members, including bibliographical references, submitted by Saundra Brown to the AfriGeneas Mailing List.
  • Robeson, Paul - Genealogy
    Submitted by Saundra Rounette Oliver Brown to the AfriGeneas Mailing List, the genealogy starts with Paul Robeson, Jr. and goes back.
• Scudder
  • Camilla Yvonne Scudder
• Stewart
  • Stewart, John - Lost History
    AfriGeneas Mailing List posting shows that John Stewart had a niece in Princeton, Mrs. Emaline Harris.
• Van Horne
  • Dr. Mahlon Van Horn, Consul to St. Thomas, West Indies (NYPL Digital Gallery)
  • Eyes of Glory
    200 years of history of a multiracial Jewish and Christian family in Newport, RI.  Black History contains a brief biography of Mahlon Van Horne.  There is a portrait and biography of his son in the SIXTH GENERATION section of Family Story.
  • Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church ... Newport, R.I. (1901)
    FIND page 83 for biographical information about Mahlon Van Horne and his son. Also includes portraits of father and son.
  • Rev. Mahlon Van Horne (In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience)
  • Reverend Mahlon Van Horne (Class and Leisure at America's First Resort)
• Van Tyne
  • David Vantine & Jane (Carol Van Tine Yocom)
    "Sela Ann," a daughter of David and Jane, is Cecelia Ann Van Tyne of Princeton. David and his daughter are buried in Princeton Cemetery.
• Vanzant
  • Correspondence (African Methodist Episcopal Magazine, May, 1842)
    
    
    

Last revised: July 28, 2008