1818-07 Sale: Rebecca Ann
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00185
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 271
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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
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According to a removal certificate filed in Middlesex County on July 22, 1818, James K. Cook, a resident of Virginia, planned to buy Rebecca Ann, a 4-year-old Black girl, from enslaver John Smock of Monmouth County. James K. Cook intended to take Rebecca Ann and the girl's mother, Hannah Grene to Virginia.
For more information about these events and the people involved, 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
- Primary Participants
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Rebecca Ann (b. 1814) {daughter of Hannah Grene}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00634
Role: Sold Person
Age: 4
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Smock
- James K. Cook
Verbatim description from source:
"female child named Rebeca Ann aged four years on or about the fifth day of April last past now belonging to John Smock in the County of Monmouth in New Jersey which said female child was born under the Abolition Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey by virtue of which act she the said female child will become free and entitled to freedom at the age of twenty one years" - Additional Participants
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John Smock
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00486
Role: Enslaver, SellerJames K. Cook
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00485
Role: Enslaver, Buyer - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker