Peter F. Hendry
Item
- Person Record Title
- Peter F. Hendry
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-00479
- Given Name
- Peter F.
- Family Name
- Hendry
- Alternate Name
- Peter Ferron Henry
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Slave Trade
- Biographical Description
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Peter F. Hendry was an enslaver associated with Judge Jacob Van Wickle's notorious slave trading ring in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
An article in the May 22, 1818, issue of the Philadelphia newspaper Franklin Gazette implicated him in kidnapping and selling Black people into slavery and listed his residence as West Windsor, NJ. The article printed his name as "Peter Ferron Henry." Middlesex County records refer to him as Peter F. Hendry. - Related Person or Resource
- 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
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker
Linked resources
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| Juda (b. 1792) | Agent |
| Sam (b. 1786) | Agent |
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| Samuel (b. 1816) | Agent |
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| 1818, Juda, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Sam, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Sam, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Samuel, Removal | Event |
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 Kidnapping report and Jacob Van Wickle's rebuttal |
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 Report of human trafficking in South River, New Jersey, implicating Jacob Van Wickle and associates |
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