Allen Reynolds
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This white person has 5 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-00487
- Given Name
- Allen
- Family Name
- Reynolds
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- Allen Reynolds was an enslaver who resided in Palmyra, Mississippi (present-day Davis Island). Removal certificates issued in Middlesex County, New Jersey, show that his associate Lewis Compton intended to bring a group of enslaved people from New Jersey to Allen Reynolds as part of a slave trading operation assisted by the legal machinations of Judge Jacob Van Wickle.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Van Wickle and associates
- Enslaver of
- Elijah (b. ca. 1787)
- Mary (b. ca. 1791)
- Phebe (b. ca. 1797)
- Sam (b. ca. 1797)
- Susan (b. ca. 1795)
- Related Person
- Lewis Compton
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Susan (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Elijah (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Sam (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Mary (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-15 Removal Registration: Phebe (Role: Enslaver)
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- Agent