courtlandville

Updated: May 25, 2025

About the middle of the century Samuel Ringgold Ward, author of the Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro, and one of the most eloquent men of the time, was for several years pastor of a white Congregational church in Courtlandville, N.Y.; and Henry Highland Garnett was the pastor of a white congregation in Troy, and well known as a public-spirited citizen as well.

Benjamin Griffith Brawley - A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including: A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Samuel Ringgold Ward was, for several years, pastor of a white congregation, in Courtlandville, N.Y., of the Congregational persuasion, and editor of an excellent newspaper, devoted to the religious elevation of that denomination. Mr. Ward is a man of great talents his fame is widespread as an orator and man of learning, and needs no encomium from us.

Martin Robison Delany - The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

S.R. Ward, a scholar of some note, was for a few years the pastor of a white church at Courtlandville, New York. Robert Morris had been honored by the appointment as Magistrate by the Governor of Massachusetts, and in New Hampshire another man of African blood had been elected to the legislature. James McCrummill, Joseph Wilson, Thos. Kennard, and Wm.

Carter Godwin Woodson - The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the: United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War