Notable Residents
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- Moses Gill (1734–1800), Massachusetts lieutenant governor and acting governor
- Ward Nicholas Boylston (1747–1828), gentleman, businessman, and philanthropist, lived in Princeton from September, 1804 until his death. He bequeathed $1000 to the town of Princeton for its church and minister and the support of indigent and deserving widows and orphan children.
- Edward Savage (1761-1817), portrait artist, engraver, and early museum proprietor
- Ezra Heywood (1829–1893), anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and feminist
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