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1817-08 Sale: Dinah
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Title
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1817-08 Sale: Dinah
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Identifier
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NJS-EVE-00279
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Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 209
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Removal certificate for Dinah (1817-08-30) recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 209. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
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Event Description
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Enslaver Dr. William Van Deursen of New Brunswick (alumnus and long-time trustee of Queen's College, now Rutgers University) sold Dinah, age 22, to Jacob Klady, a New Brunswick landholder who intended to move to Ouachita Parish in Louisiana and take Dinah with him. At the time of the sale, Jacob Klady promised to manumit Dinah if she served obediently for 15 years in Louisiana. This promise was probably made by Klady in order to gain Dinah's consent for the relocation, since New Jersey law required registering the consent of an enslaved person before that person could be taken out of the State of New Jersey.
Around the same time, William Van Deursen's brother Staats Van Deursen also sold a woman named Phillis to Jacob Klady for relocation to Louisiana.
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Event Type
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Freedom status transaction: Sale
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Date
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August 1817
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Date Certainty
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Approximate
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County (Modern)
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Middlesex
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County (Historical)
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Middlesex
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Participant Details
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DETAILS FOR PRIMARY PARTICIPANTS:
*** Dinah (b. 1795) ***
Role: Sold Person
Age: 22
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Van Deursen (1791-1873)
- Jacob Klady
Verbatim description from source:
"Dinah the female servant of Doctor William Van Deursen of the city of New Brunswick, in the county and State aforesaid, being a slave for life"
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DETAILS FOR OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
William Van Deursen (1791-1873)
Role: Enslaver - Seller
Jacob Klady
Role: Enslaver - Buyer
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Record Contributor
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Jesse Bayker