Educator, Missionary. Born a slave, the exact date of her birth is unknown. As a young girl, her owner Robert Stockton gave her to his daughter upon her marriage to Reverend Ashbel Green who was the president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). In 1817 she was given her freedom and admitted as a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. She remained with the Green family as a paid servant and was home schooled by Reverend Green. Originally wanting to go to Africa as a Christian missionary, in September 1821 she learned of Princeton Seminary graduate Dr. Charles S. Stewart's plan to travel to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) to become a missionary. She received approval by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to accompany the Stewart family and became the first single American woman to become a missionary. In November 1822 they departed the US and arrived in Honolulu five months later, eventually settling at Lâhainâ, on the island of Maui where they started a mission school for the native common people. She taught English, Latin, history, and math as well as instructions in Christianity. Additionally, she taught native Hawaiian teachers who took over after she returned to the US with the Stewarts in 1825. She remained with the Stewart family for another five years, after which she taught at an infant school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and established a school for Native Canadians at Grape Island, Canada. In 1835 she returned to Princeton and taught school for African American children until her death at the approximate age of 68 and was interred in the Stewart plot at Lakewood Cemetery in Cooperstown, New York. She helped to found Princeton's First Presbyterian Church of Color in 1840, renamed the Witherspoon Street Church eight years later. A version of her Hawaiian diary was published in the Christian Advocate by Dr. Green in 1824 and 1825.∼Betsey Stockton was born a slave and given to her sister as a personal servant by their father, when the latter married. She became literate and as an ordained missionary, went to Hawaii to teach Native Hawaiian non-royal children. Before her return to the mainland. she trained Hawaiians to teach, as she had learned their language while living and working in Lahaina on the island of Maui. She also taught in Philadelphia and Canada. In Princeton, NJ she helped found a a black Presbyterian church. After her death, she was buried with the Stewart family in New York. She had sailed from New Haven, Connecticut with them to Hawaii in 1822, staying there for three years.