1817-08 Sale: Dinah

Title

1817-08 Sale: Dinah

Identifier

NJS-EVE-00279

Source

Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 209

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.

Event Description

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.

Event Type

Freedom status transaction: Sale

Date

August 1817

Date Certainty

Approximate

Location of Event

New Brunswick

Preceding Event

1817-08-30 Removal: Dinah

Related Event

1817-09 Sale: Phillis

Primary Participant

Dinah (b. 1795)

Enslaver

William Van Deursen (1791-1873)

Jacob Klady

Participant Details

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

Record Contributor

Jesse Bayker