1797 Registration: free Black people in Egg Harbour
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01932
- Source
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Report of Blacks in Evesham and Egg Harbour
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Report of Blacks in Evesham and Egg Harbour. Archival location: Burlington County Historical Society. Abolition Collection (MSS 5). Box 1, Folder 1: Negroes Census Records.
- Event Description
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The New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery received a report counting Black people in the township of Egg Harbour, Burlington County, New Jersey. Note that Egg Harbour refers to the township now known as Little Egg Harbor, Ocean County; it was originally part of Burlington County. The report is undated. Other documents in the same file suggest that the society collected these reports circa 1797–1798.
The report did not list names and only provided this information:
"Agreeable to Accounts from Eggharbour there is
about 12 Black people there
and all of them free" - Event Type
- Registration
- Date
- 1797 – 1798
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- Little Egg Harbor (formerly in Burlington County)
- Primary Participants
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12 free Black people
Role: Registered Person
Status: Free
Verbatim description from source:
"about 12 Black people there and all of them free" - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
