Report of Blacks in Evesham and Egg Harbour

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Identifier: NJS-SRC-02865
Source Type: Census or Register
Author: New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Location Created: Evesham; Little Egg Harbor (formerly in Burlington County)
Date: 1797 – 1798
Description: This document is a report enumerating free and enslaved Black people in the townships of Evesham and Egg Harbour, Burlington County. Note that Egg Harbour refers to the township now known as Little Egg Harbor, Ocean County; it was originally part of Burlington County. This information was collected by the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. The report is undated. Other documents in the same file suggest that the society collected these reports circa 1797–1798.
Transcript: Account of the Number, Character, and Interest of the Free Black People in the Township of Evesham in the County of Burlington

..... | Number of their family | Value of their property | Character

Andrew Mintes Senr - 8 people, 300 dollars, midling Industrous
Roman Julias - 4 people, 50 dollars
Sip Conas - 4 people, 50 dollars, Industrous
Dover Smith - 1 person, 300 dollars, frugal and saving
James Mintes - 1 person, 50 dollars, Industrous
Sip Conas Junr - 1 person, 30 dollars, Industrous
Isaac Conas - 1 person
John Kingston - 1 person
Sip Leaman - 1 person
Jacob Ames - 1 person
Tab Still - 3 people, 40 dollars, Sober & Industrous
Clary Still - 5 people, 30 dollars, Industrous
Tony Ward - 3 people
Anthony Noah - 1 person
James Ward - 1 person
Charles Mintess - 1 person
Foidy - 4 people, 50 dollars, Sober & Industrous
Benjamin - 4 people
John Sobers - 3 people
Joseph - 3 people
Samuel Bowen - 5 people
John Booby - 3 people, 20 dollars, Industrous
--- Wilkins - 4 people
Willow - 1 person
Edith - 2 people
Molly - 1 person
Children in several plases, Apprentices - 12 people
John Stevenson - 1 person
Manuel Murry - 1 person

[Total:] 81
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Slaves in Evesham

Tobe Acreby & family - 3 people
Julius Acreby - 1 person
Amm - 1 person
Cambridge Smith - 1 person
[Total:] 6

Several of the above are so far free, as to go when they please
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Agreeable to Accounts from Eggharbour there is
about 12 Black people there
and all of them free

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Report of Blacks in Evesham & Egg Harbour

Account of the Black people in Evesham and Eggharbour
Language: English
Format: Handwritten list, single sheet, double-sided
Sequence Number: 2003.5.1
Archive: Burlington County Historical Society
Archival Collection: Abolition Collection (MSS 5)
Archival Location: Box 1, Folder 1: Negroes Census Records
Record Contributor: Jesse Bayker
Linked Events: This item is cited as a source in:

1797 Registration: free Black people in Evesham

1797 Registration: free Black people in Egg Harbour

1797 Registration: enslaved people in Evesham