Jean Andre Barbarroux (d. 1825)
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This white person has 3 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02612
- Given Name
- Jean Andre
- Family Name
- Barbarroux
- Alternate Name
- John Andrew Barbarroux
- Barbaroux
- Barbaroosh
- Death Date
- 1825
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Landowning
- Biographical Description
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Jean Andre Barbaroux was a French enslaver who resided in Burlington, New Jersey, at the turn of the 19th century. He was born around the area of Marseilles, France, and moved to the island of Saint-Domingue where he was the owner of several large coffee plantations and exploited slave labor extensively. During the Haitian Revolution, Barbarroux and his family fled to New Jersey and settled in Burlington. He bought a waterfront property that included a wharf (located at the foot of Talbot Street), which became known as Barbarroux Wharf by 1797. His name in New Jersey history documents is often Anglicized into John Andrew Barbarroux and sometimes written phonetically as "Barbaroosh."
He is listed in the Burlington Township tax ratables for 1797, where he has 4 people in the "Slaves" column in his assessed property. He is also listed in the report of the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery for Burlington with 5 enslaved people (2 male and 3 female). The Abolition Society report was compiled circa 1797 or 1798.
Barbarroux's name appears in some runaway ads. He offered a reward for Noel who ran away from him in April of 1802. He also submitted a runaway ad offering a reward for Marceline, seemingly on behalf of her enslaver Madam Despinose, in 1804. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Francophone
- Enslaver of
- Noel (b. 1776)
- References
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Nelson, William. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives, with Additions and Supplements. Vol. 9. Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916. Page 38, http://archive.org/details/newjerseybiogra00nels.
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. Vol. 13. Philadelphia: Published by the Society, 1902. Page 188, https://www.google.com/books?id=Qp9JAAAAYAAJ.
Plantation owners of St. Domingue (1789) - B Names. Domingino project by Dr. Oliver Gliech. https://www.domingino.de/stdomin/colons_b.htm.
Burlington County, Burlington Township, Tax Ratables Book 178, 1797. New Jersey General Assembly Tax Ratables (Duplicates), 1768-1854 (SAS00001). New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, NJ. https://nj.gov/state/darm/WebCatalogPDF/SAS00001_Tax_Ratables/Book178_BurlingtonBurlingtonTownshipJuneAugust1797.pdf
- Record Contributor
- Xandria McKinley
- Kate Jackson
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Marceline, by J. A. Barbarroux (Runaway ad for Marceline, by J. A. Barbarroux, "Twenty Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, September 24, 1804.)
- Runaway ad for Marceline, by J. A. Barbarroux (in Poulson's) (Runaway ad for Marceline, by J. A. Barbarroux (in Poulson's), "Twenty Dollars Reward," Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, September 18, 1804, p. 2.)
- Runaway ad for Noel, by J. A. Barbarroux (Runaway ad for Noel, by J. A. Barbarroux, "Ten Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, May 11, 1802.)
- Runaway ad for Noel, by J. A. Barbarroux (in Poulson's) (Runaway ad for Noel, by J. A. Barbarroux (in Poulson's), "Ten Dollars Reward," Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, May 5, 1802, p. 3.)
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1797 Registration: primarily French households with enslaved people in Burlington (Role: Enslaver)
- 1802-04-29 Freedom Seeking: Noel (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
- 1804-09-14 Freedom Seeking: Marceline (Role: Advertiser)
