Jacob Klady

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Identifier
NJS-PER-00261
Given Name
Jacob
Family Name
Klady
Sex
Male
Occupation
Landowning
Biographical Description
Jacob Klady was an enslaver who lived in New Brunswick, NJ, in the early 19th century. In 1817, he divested of his landholdings in New Jersey and moved to Ouachita, Louisiana, to establish a plantation there. He sold a farm of 139 acres to the Township of North Brunswick for $6,992 for use as the municipality's "poorhouse farm." He then bought enslaved people in New Jersey and took them to Louisiana. Among the people he brought to Louisiana were Phillis and Dinah (two young women Klady bought from Staats Van Deursen and William Van Deursen) and a young man named Ben (purchased from James Smith).
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Places
North Brunswick
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
New Brunswick
Enslaver of
Ben (b. ca. 1799)
Dinah (b. 1795)
Phillis (b. 1795)
References

Bayker, Jesse, Christopher Blakley, and Kendra Boyd. "His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History." In Scarlet and Black: Vol. 1, Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, edited by Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White, 58–81. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1k3s9r0.7

Wall, John Patrick, and Harold E. Pickersgill. History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1664-1920. Vol. 2. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1921. Page 424. https://archive.org/details/historyofmiddles02wall

Clayton, W. Woodford, ed. History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. Page 745-6. https://archive.org/details/historyofunionmi00wwoo

U.S. Senate. Report from the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Monroe, Louisiana, Under Act of 1851, for the Settlement of Certain Classes of Private Land Claims Within the Bastrop Grant. 32d Cong., 2d Sess., 1852, S. Doc. 4. (See p. 620 and other numerous land deeds for Jacob Klady in Ouachita Parish.) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Senate_Documents_Otherwise_Publ_as_Publi/qXwFAAAAQAAJ

Robinson, Merritt M. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Vol. 1. New Orleans, LA: E. Johns & Co., 1842. Page 25. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reports_of_Cases_Argued_and_Determined_i/IrhLAAAAYAAJ

Sale of Dick from Jacob Klady to Michel LeVillian. Ouachita, LA, April 22, 1820. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (online database). http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=88041

Sale of Felicity from Jacob Klady to Michel LeVillian. Ouachita, LA, April 22, 1820. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (online database). http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=88042
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Jesse Bayker
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