William Stone
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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-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
- Enslaver of
- Cain (b. ca. 1796)
- Frank (b. ca. 1797)
- George (b. ca. 1783)
- Jane (b. ca. 1795)
- Peter (b. ca. 1804)
- Related Person
- Lewis Compton
- 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
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: Cain (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: Frank (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-06 Removal Registration: George (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-21 Removal Registration: Jane (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-10-21 Removal Registration: Peter (Role: Enslaver)
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- Agent