Peter F. Hendry
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This white person has 3 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
This person was connected with a notorious slave trading ring in New Jersey. To learn more about the scheme, see our guide to the Van Wickle Slave Trading Ring.
- 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. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Van Wickle and associates
- References
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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. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.77.3.0281
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. https://doi.org/10.14713/njs.v1i1.16
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
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Mentioned in:
- Kidnapping report and Jacob Van Wickle's rebuttal (Kidnapping report and Jacob Van Wickle's rebuttal, "KIDNAPPING," Centinel of Freedom, June 9, 1818, p. 2-3.)
- Report of human trafficking in South River, New Jersey, implicating Jacob Van Wickle and associates (Report of human trafficking in South River, New Jersey, implicating Jacob Van Wickle and associates, Franklin Gazette, May 22, 1818, p. 2.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-04-29 Removal Registration: Sam (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-15 Removal Registration: Juda, Samuel (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-20 Removal Registration: Sam (Role: Enslaver)
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