Abraham Staats House, South Bound Brook
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00147
- Place Type
- Domicile
- Located In
- South Bound Brook
- Description
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The Abraham Staats House is a historic farm property located at 17 Von Steuben Lane in South Bound Brook, New Jersey. The house was originally constructed by Hendrick Staats in 1740 as a small two-room house and was greatly expanded over the following century by Abraham Staats and his children.
The Staats House is a historical site of enslavement. Abraham Staats (1743-1821) and his wife Margaret Du Bois Staats (1749-1822) lived at the house from 1770 until their deaths in the 1820s, and they held several Black people in bondage well into the 19th century. The South Bound Brook area was then considered part of Franklin Township, and records related to the Staats family and the people enslaved by them list Franklin Township as the location.
The borough of South Bound Brook acquired the house in 1999 for preservation, and the house is now open for public visitation and educational programming. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. - Locality
- South Bound Brook
- County (Modern)
- Somerset County
- State or Province
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States of America
- Latitude
- 40.551667
- Longitude
- -74.521111
- References
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Abraham Staats House website, https://www.staatshouse.org/
- Keywords
- National Register of Historic Places
- Image Rights
- Image from Wikimedia Commons. Staats House. Photograph by Zeete, 2013. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Staats_House,_NJ,_north_view.jpg
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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