John Kirkpatrick

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Identifier
NJS-PER-02548
Given Name
John
Family Name
Kirkpatrick
Sex
Male
Biographical Description
John Kirkpatrick was an enslaver who resided in Bernards Township, Somerset County, NJ, in the early 19th century. He served as a judge in the 1820s. In the 1830 U.S. census, his household in Bernards listed 4 Black people including one enslaved man and one enslaved woman, both aged 36 to 54, and a boy and a girl, both aged under 10 years. The children were listed as "free" on the federal census, but this does not accurately describe their status; they were slaves for a term of years under New Jersey's gradual abolition law (the federal census did not have a category for people in their situation).

It appears John Kirkpatrick of Bernards township was a nephew (or possibly cousin) of Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831), a prominent Rutgers University trustee and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who grew up in Bernards and later moved to New Brunswick.
Keywords
white person
Places
Bernards (formerly Bernardston)
Enslaver of
Betty (b. 1817)
References

1830 U.S. Census record for John Kirkpatrick in Bernards Township, Somerset County, NJ, page 102.
Record Contributor
Daniel Dias
Jesse Bayker
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