Person Record Title

Nicholas Van Wickle (1796-1865)

Identifier

NJS-PER-00072

Given Name

Nicholas

Family Name

Van Wickle

Alternate Name

Van Wikle

Birth Date

1796

Death Date

1865

Sex

Male

Biographical Description

Nicholas Van Wickle was the son of Judge Jacob Van Wickle, and was involved in his father's notorious slave trading ring in Middlesex County, New Jersey. In 1818, Nicholas Van Wickle helped his father and his uncle Charles Morgan buy up groups of enslaved people in New Jersey and then falsify legal documents to facilitate the shipment of these enslaved people to the Deep South where they could be sold for a huge profit.

Keywords

white person

enslaver

Van Wickle and associates

Place of Significance

South River, NJ

North Brunswick, NJ

Child of

Jacob Van Wickle (1770-1854)

Sarah Morgan Van Wickle (1772-1835) (1772-1835)

Related Person or Resource

Charles Morgan (1775-1848)

New Jersey Slavery Records > Understanding removal certificates and slave trading

Lost Souls Memorial Project website

Bibliographic Citation

Gigantino, James J., II. "Trading in Jersey Souls: New Jersey and the Interstate Slave Trade." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 3 (2010): 281–302.

Drake, Jarrett. "Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th Century New Jersey." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1, no. 1 (2015): 104–25.

Pingeon, Frances D. “An Abominable Business: The New Jersey Slave Trade, 1818.” New Jersey History 109, no. 3 (1991): 15–35.

Record Contributor

Jesse Bayker