Benjamin Griggs
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This white person has 4 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02856
- Given Name
- Benjamin
- Family Name
- Griggs
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Benjamin Griggs was an enslaver who lived in Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A Black man named Tone ran away from his household in the summer of 1810.
Benjamin Griggs acted as one of the administrators of the estate of Vincent Wetherill of Cranbury (together with co-administrator Sarah Wetherill). He sold several enslaved people for the Wetherill estate in 1810. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- executor or administrator for estate of enslaver
- Enslaver of
- Tone (b. 1782)
- Related Person
- Vincent Wetherill
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This person is represented on the following page(s):
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24091702 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Tone, by Benjamin Griggs (Runaway ad for Tone, by Benjamin Griggs, "30 Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, June 11, 1810, p. 3.)
- Slave sale ad for two Black men, 14-year-old Black girl, and several Black children, by Sarah Wetherill and Benjamin Griggs for the estate of Vincent Wetherill (Slave sale ad for two Black men, 14-year-old Black girl, and several Black children, by Sarah Wetherill and Benjamin Griggs for the estate of Vincent Wetherill, "TO BE SOLD," Trenton Federalist, January 29, 1810, p. 3.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1799-01-19 Sale: Lydia (Role: Witness)
- 1810-01-22 Advertisement: 2 Black men, Black girl aged 14, several small children (Role: Advertiser)
- 1810-06-03 Freedom Seeking: Tone (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
- 1820-04-15 Manumission: Ben (Role: Witness)
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- Agent