1817-09 Sale: Phillis
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00280
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 208
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Removal certificate for Phillis (1817-09-23) recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 208. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Event Description
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In 1817, Staats Van Deursen (Treasurer of Queen's College, later Rutgers Univesity) sold Phillis to a man named Jacob Klady, a New Jersey landholder who was getting ready to move to Ouachita Parish in Louisiana to establish a plantation. Klady took Phillis to Louisiana with him. Phillis was aged 22 at this time.
Around the same time, Staats Van Deursen's brother William Van Deursen sold a woman named Dinah to Jacob Klady for relocation to Louisiana. - Event Type
- Sale
- Date
- September 1817
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location of Event
- New Brunswick
- Preceding Event
- 1817-09-23 Removal Registration: Phillis
- Related Event
- 1817-08 Sale: Dinah
- Primary Participants
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Phillis (b. 1795)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00643
Role: Sold Person
Age: 22
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Staats Van Deursen (b. 1773)
- Jacob Klady
Verbatim description from source:
"Phillis the negro slave of Staats Van Deursen of the city of New Brunswick, in the county and State aforesaid, aged twenty two years" - Additional Participants
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Staats Van Deursen (b. 1773)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00460
Role: Enslaver, SellerJacob Klady
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00261
Role: Enslaver, Buyer - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker