1793 Sale: Jef
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00667
- Source
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Letter from Robert Finley to John Neilson regarding Jef
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Letter from Robert Finley to John Neilson regarding Jef, February 27, 1794. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Neilson Family Papers, 1768-1908 (MC 933). Box 4, Folder 45: J & J Neilson - Papers relating to purchase of slaves.
- Event Description
- Mr. Mattison of Princeton sold Jef to one Mr. Kelsey for the sum of 90 pounds when Jef was aged approximately 21 or younger. Subsequently, the sale was reversed and Jef was returned to Mattison's household at the request of Mr. Mattison's wife. The date of this sale event is unknown, but it occurred sometime before February 24, 1794, when Robert Finley of Princeton mentioned this situation in a letter to his friend Col. John Neilson of New Brunswick. Neilson had asked Finley about the possibility of purchasing Jef for 90 pounds. Finley wrote to Neilson about Jef: "He was once sold to Mr. Kelsey for the sum mentioned in your letter but taken back at the request of his present Mistress."
- Event Type
- Sale
- Date
- 1793
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- Princeton
- Related Event
- 1794-02 Sale: Jef
- Primary Participants
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Jef (b. ca. 1773)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01509
Role: Sold Person
Age category: Young Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mr. Mattison
- Mr. Kelsey - Additional Participants
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Mr. Mattison
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01510
Role: Enslaver, SellerMr. Kelsey
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01511
Role: Enslaver, Buyer - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker