1818-07 Sale: Hannah Grene

Identifier
NJS-EVE-00184
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 271

Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 271. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. XI.
Event Description
According to a removal certificate issued by the Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County on July 22, 1818, George Farmer of Middlesex County, NJ, sold an enslaved woman named Hannah Grene, aged 21, to one James K. Cook, a resident of Virginia.

Relatedly, James K. Cook planned to buy Hannah Grene's daughter Rebecca Ann from John Smock.

For more information about these events, see the related removal registration event for Hannah Grene and Rebecca Ann (Identifier NJS-EVE-00264).
Event Type
Sale
Date
July 1818
Date Certainty
Inferred
Location of Event
Belle Vue, Highland Park (formerly in Piscataway)
Virginia
Related Event
1818-07 Sale: Rebecca Ann
1818-07-22 Removal Registration: Hannah Grene, Rebecca Ann
Primary Participants

Hannah Grene (b. ca. 1797)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00712
Role: Sold Person
Age: 21
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- George Farmer (1761-1818)
- James K. Cook
Verbatim description from source:
"female slave named Hannah Grene aged between twenty one and twenty two years; slave for life"
Additional Participants

George Farmer (1761-1818)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00483
Role: Enslaver, Seller

James K. Cook
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00485
Role: Enslaver, Buyer
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event