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Identifier
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NJS-SRC-00614
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Source Type
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Article
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Headline
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From the Newark Messenger
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Publication
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Trenton Federalist
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Date of Issue
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June 29, 1818
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Page
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3
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Transcript
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From the Newark Messenger.
Mr. WARD,
Sir—The following is an extract of a letter now in my possession, received from a respectable gentleman in New Orleans, dated 10th May, 1818, and which you are at liberty to publish in your paper with any such introductory remarks as you may think proper.
"A few days ago was seized in this port by the officers of the customs, the brig Mary Ann, Wm. Lee master, from New-York, via. Perth Amboy, for having on board thirty-six persons of color, without a manifest, &c. according to law. The names of the blacks are,
Susan, Peter, Moses, Harry, James, Bob, George, Simon, Rosanna, Elmira, Closs, Betsy, Boss, Lydia, and Patty, Clarissa and child Hercules, Rachell, Ana and child Rosino, Flora and child Susan, Jenette (or Jane,) Lydia Ann and child Harriet, Jane, Hager and two children Mary and Charles, Christiana and two children Elias & Robert, Margaret, Cowan, Sarah and child Diana.
These blacks it is understood, were bro't from Amboy by a certain Charles Morgan, and put on board the brig after she had got to sea, and they appear by papers exhibited by the parties claimant here, to have passed through certain formalities before one Judge Van Wickle. The list furnished by the captain disagrees grossly with the truth as to their ages. Some, who from inspection, are evidently not more than 14 or 15 being put down as of 25."
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Language
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English
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Keywords
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Van Wickle slave trading ring
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slave trade
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Record Contributor
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Jesse Bayker
