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Historical Highway MarkersJohn ChavisI-24
John Chavis (1763–1838), a free-born African-American veteran of the American Revolution was a native of Granville County, North Carolina. He was also one of the first college-educated men of color in the United States. Chavis studied at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1792 and attended Liberty Hall Academy (present-day Washington and Lee University) by 1796. The Lexington Presbytery licensed him to preach in 1800. Chavis returned to North Carolina where he taught free blacks in the evenings and white students by day. One of the latter was Willie P. Mangum who became a U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: "African Americans and Princeton University: A History in Brief Theodore," http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/African_Americans.shtml, 27 January 2006; C. Delaney, "Discovering John Chavis," unpublished paper, n.d.; Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 2:358-359; John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999), 4:761-762; J. Jefferson Looney and Ruth L. Woodward, Princetonians 1791-1794 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton, University Press, 1991), lii-liii; Minutes of the Board of Trustees, College of New Jersey, 25 September 1792 pg 299, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Helen Chavis Othow, John Chavis: African American Patriot, Preacher, Teacher and Mentor (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2001). |