Lewis Compton
Item
- Person Record Title
- Lewis Compton
- 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.
- Related Person or Resource
- Jacob Van Wickle (1770-1854)
- Allen Reynolds
- William Stone
- 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
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Allen Reynolds | Agent |
| Jacob Van Wickle (1770-1854) | Agent |
| William Stone | Agent |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Betsey (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Cain (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Charles (b. 1775) | Agent |
| Elijah (b. 1787) | Agent |
| Frank (b. 1797) | Agent |
| George (b. 1783) | Agent |
| George (b. 1800) | Agent |
| Hannah (b. 1802) | Agent |
| Hannah (b. 1804) | Agent |
| Jack (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Jack (b. 1797) | Agent |
| James (b. 1786) | Agent |
| Lewis (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Mary (b. 1791) | Agent |
| Peter (b. 1797) | Agent |
| Peter (b. 1804) | Agent |
| Phebe (b. 1797) | Agent |
| Sam (b. 1797) | Agent |
| William (b. 1796) | Agent |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| 1818, Betsey, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Cain, Removal | Event |
| 1818, Charles, Removal | Event |
- Resource class
- Agent