Report of Blacks in Chester Township
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02867
- Source Type
- Census or Register
- Location Created
- Chester (Burlington County)
- Date
- 1797
- Description
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This document is a report enumerating free and enslaved Black people in the township of Chester, Burlington County, in 1797. This information was collected by the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
The left side of the document shows the number of enslaved people by household. This list appears to show the names of the white people who held people in bondage (not the names of the enslaved people). The right side of the document shows the number of free Black people and families by name. - Transcript
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Negroes in the Township of Chester 1797
Slaves
John Bispham 1
John Scank 2
Richard Edwards 1
Abraham Hulings 1
Wiliam Foster 1
John Cox 2
John Earl 1
Hezekiah Toy 1
Free
Nathan Middleton 1
Abraham Brown 1
Aron Engle 1
Thomas Bispham 1
[Peter?] Pool 1
Sip Ball 1
Thomas Western [or Westerr] & family 4
Hugh Coperthwait 1
Christopher Wilson & family 4
John Summers & family 4
Sip Jolly & Wife 2
Joseph Hackney 1
Job Copperthwait 1
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Report of State
of Blacks in
Chester Township - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten list, small single sheet, double-sided
- Sequence Number
- 2003.5.4
- Archival Collection
- Abolition Collection (MSS 5)
- Archival Location
- Box 1, Folder 1: Negroes Census Records
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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