1824-07-20 Probate (of Samuel Price): Dinah, Harry, James Boyer, Tousaint Milford

Identifier
NJS-EVE-00982
Source

Find a Grave database, Memorial ID 12849430 for Samuel Price, accessed March 2, 2024. The record includes family history information and a partial transcript of Samuel Price's estate inventory (dated July 20, 1824), based on research compiled by J. Kelsey Jones in 1988. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12849430/samuel_price
Event Description
After the death of Samuel Price of Sussex County, New Jersey, the inventory of his estate was taken on July 20, 1824. The inventory listed four Black people, including a woman whose name was not recorded. The unnamed woman is presumed to be Dinah, who was the mother of the two young boys listed in the inventory as Jim and Milford.

A partial transcript of the inventory was published by a genealogy researcher in the record for Samuel Price in the Find a Grave database. The transcript is as follows:

"1 coulourd woman $30.00
1 coulourd boy nam'd Harry $30.00
1 coulourd boy named Jem (Jim) $5.00
1 coulourd boy named Milford $1.00"
Event Type
Probate
Date
July 20, 1824
Location of Event
Frankford
Primary Participants

Dinah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02084
Role: Registered Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Price (1756-1824)
Verbatim description from source:
"1 coulourd woman $30.00"

Harry
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02372
Role: Registered Person
Age category: Young Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Price (1756-1824)
Verbatim description from source:
"1 coulourd boy nam'd Harry $30.00"

James Boyer (b. 1820)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02082
Role: Registered Person
Age: 4
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Price (1756-1824)
Verbatim description from source:
"1 coulourd boy named Jem (Jim) $5.00"

Tousaint Milford (b. 1823)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02085
Role: Registered Person
Age: 1
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Price (1756-1824)
Verbatim description from source:
"1 coulourd boy named Milford $1.00"
Additional Participants

Samuel Price (1756-1824)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02083
Role: Enslaver, Deceased
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event