Prince Mortimer was an 18th century enslaved individual and Revolutionary War vet in Connecticut who was sent to prison for life at age 87, accused of attempting to poison his enslaver as a means to free himself. He should have been freed 4 decades prior for his service in the Revolutionary War, but wasn’t. He also should have been freed in 1794 when his prior enslaver (Philip Mortimer) freed him in his will…a will that was overturned in the courts when contested by the enslavers son-in-law (George Starr), who became his new enslaver and the person he was accused of attempting to poison in 1811.

I've been digging, trying to find proof Prince Mortimer’s remains were sent to Yale for dissection.

Still digging hard to find Prince, but I persist while disturbed by an annoying splinter in my mind. It's rooted in the irony of having identifying documentation of Prince afforded us solely because he was sent to prison.