1817-01-15 Membership or Participation: Samuel Lane
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00011
- Source
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Permission slip for Samuel Lane to join the African Association, by Andrew Kirkpatrick
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African Association of New Brunswick Minute Book
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Permission slip for Samuel Lane to join the African Association, by Andrew Kirkpatrick, January 15, 1817. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Loose slip glued to a back page in the Minute Book.
African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. See membership roll for 1817 on page 3 of the bound volume. - Event Description
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Samuel Lane was one of the founding members of the African Association of New Brunswick, and his name appears on the first list of subscribers in January 1817. Lane was enslaved at this time. He received a permission slip from enslaver Andrew Kirkpatrick to join the organization.
The following is a transcript of the permission slip signed by Andrew Kirkpatrick:
"I do hereby give permission to my man Sam to become a member of and to attend the African Society in the city of New Brunswick, and to join them in all such things as shall be lawful and necessary, and at the same time consistent with his condition as a slave.
15 Jan. 17. And Kirkpatrick" - Event Type
- Membership or Participation
- Date
- January 15, 1817
- Location of Event
- New Brunswick
- Related Event
- 1819-01-01 Membership or Participation: Samuel Lane
- Primary Participants
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Samuel Lane
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00007
Role: Member
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)
Verbatim description from source:
"my man Sam...a slave" - Additional Participants
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Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00006
Role: Enslaver, Permission Grantor - Organization
- African Association of New Brunswick
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker