MORRISTOWN — In the final meeting of the year on Monday, Dec. 18, the Morris School District Board of Education celebrated Morristown High School’s fall athletes, as well as updated
AN AMERICAN school named after an East Lothian-born minister with links to the slave trade has had its name changed following a petition. The John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton, New Jersey, was named after the Rev Dr John Witherspoon, one of the founding fathers of the United States. He was born in Gifford manse in 1723 – son of the Rev James Alexander Witherspoon, the then minister at Yester Kirk who is buried there. John served as a minister himself in North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire and emigrated to New Jersey in 1768; he also became president of Princeton University. He was the only clergyman to sign the United States’ Declaration of Independence. He died in New Jersey in 1794 and was buried at Princeton Cemetery.
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