Person Record Title

William Stone

Identifier

NJS-PER-00489

Given Name

William

Family Name

Stone

Sex

Male

Biographical Description

William Stone was an enslaver who moved from New York City to New Iberia, Louisiana, where he set up a sugar plantation in 1818. 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 William Stone 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

Place of Significance

New York, NY

New Iberia, LA

Related Person or Resource

Lewis Compton

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.

Record Contributor

Isaac Guzmán

Jesse Bayker