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Identifier
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NJS-SRC-01595
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Source Type
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Article
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Headline
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Extract of a letter from New-Orleans, dated May 10, 1818.
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Publication
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Centinel of Freedom
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Date of Issue
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June 23, 1818
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Page
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3
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Transcript
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Extract of a letter from New-Orleans, dated May 10, 1818.
"A few days ago, we seized the brig Mary Ann, Wm. Lee master, from N. York via. Perth Amboy, for having on board thirty-six persons of colour, without a Manifest, &c.—These persons, before our getting possession of the Brig, were landed on a plantation below the city. We sent an armed boat, and forcibly removed them, and afterwards deposited them on another plantation, where they now remain and are well provided for with every thing necessary for their safety and comfort, and protected by force of arms. These negroes, as I understand, were brought from Perth-Amboy, by a certain Charles Morgan, and carried on board the brig by night, after she had got to sea.—The appear (by papers exhibited by the parties claimant) to have passed through certain formalities before "JUDGE VAN WICKLE." The names of the blacks are: Clarissa, and child Hercules, Peter, Christianna, and two children, Dianna and Dorcas, Susan, Boss, Phillis and two children, Elias and Robert, Moses, Betsy, Margaret Cowan, Harry, Lydia, Rachel, Ann, and child, Rosina, James, Paty, Bob, Flora, and child, Susan, Sarah and child, Diana—Jennett, or Jane, George, Simon, Rosanna, Elmira, Lydia, Ann and child, Harriet, Jane, Closs, Hager, and two children, Mary and Charles.
"The list furnished by the Captain disagrees grossly with the truth as to the ages; some who from inspection are evidently not more than 14 or 15 being put down as of 25 years."
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Language
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English
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Keywords
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Van Wickle slave trading ring
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slave trade
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Record Contributor
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Jesse Bayker
