Lewis Compton
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This white person has 20 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-00480
- Given Name
- Lewis
- Family Name
- Compton
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Slave Trade
- Biographical Description
- Lewis Compton was an enslaver associated with Judge Jacob Van Wickle's notorious slave trading ring in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Van Wickle and associates
- Enslaver of
- Betsey (b. ca. 1796)
- Cain (b. ca. 1796)
- Charles (b. ca. 1775)
- Claus
- Elijah (b. ca. 1787)
- Frank (b. ca. 1797)
- George (b. ca. 1783)
- George (b. ca. 1800)
- Hannah (b. ca. 1802)
- Hannah (b. ca. 1804)
- Jack (b. ca. 1796)
- Jack (b. ca. 1797)
- James (b. ca. 1786)
- Lewis (b. ca. 1796)
- Mary (b. ca. 1791)
- Peter (b. ca. 1797)
- Peter (b. ca. 1804)
- Phebe (b. ca. 1797)
- Sam (b. ca. 1797)
- William (b. ca. 1796)
- 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
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-04-22 Removal Registration: Peter (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-04-29 Removal Registration: William (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-04-29 Removal Registration: Betsey (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-15 Removal Registration: James (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-20 Removal Registration: George (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-20 Removal Registration: Hannah (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-23 Removal Registration: Hannah (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-05-23 Removal Registration: Jack (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-06 Criminal action: victim Claus (slave trafficking case, defendants Charles Morgan, Lewis Compton, and James Edgar) (Role: Enslaver, Defendant)
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: Cain (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: George (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: Frank (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Jack (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Lewis (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Elijah (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Mary (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Phebe (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Sam (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-21 Removal Registration: Charles (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-21 Removal Registration: Peter (Role: Enslaver)
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- Agent