1817-09-23 Removal Registration: Ben

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00500
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 210

Removal certificate for Ben (1817-09-23) recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 210. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
In 1817, James Smith of Middlesex County, NJ, sold Ben to a man named Jacob Klady, a New Brunswick landholder who was getting ready to move to Ouachita Parish in Louisiana to establish a plantation. Klady took Ben to Louisiana with him. Ben was aged 18 at this time.

On September 23, 1817, James Smith brought Ben to the Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County to obtain a removal certificate authorizing Jacob Klady to take Ben to Louisiana where Ben would serve Klady as his new enslaver. The certificate was signed by two judges (Thomas Hance and John Fitz Randolph). The document stated that Ben was examined by the judges and consented to move with Jacob Klady to Louisiana. It additionally stated that Ben had no parents living in the state of New Jersey (i.e. parental consent was not obtained for Ben's move). The certificate was recorded by the County Clerk (William P. Deare) on October 8, 1817.
Event Type
Removal Registration
Date
September 23, 1817
Location of Event
Middlesex County
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
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Primary Participants

Ben (b. ca. 1799)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01340
Role: Relocated Person
Age: 18
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Smith
- Jacob Klady
Verbatim description from source:
"negro slave; aged eighteen years"
Additional Participants

Thomas Hance
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00227
Role: Judge

John Fitz Randolph
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00133
Role: Judge

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

James Smith
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00277
Role: Enslaver
Comment: testified to obtain removal certificate

Jacob Klady
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00261
Role: Enslaver
Comment: moving to Louisiana and taking the enslaved person
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event