1771-04-09 Sale: Dinah, Friday Truehart
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01163
- Source
- Copy of original diary of Rev. Oliver Hart
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Copy of original diary of Rev. Oliver Hart. See page 6.
- Event Description
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A Black woman named Dinah (aged 20) and her son Friday (aged 3 years and 10 months), were purchased by the Rev. Oliver Hart on April 9, 1771, in Charleston, South Carolina. Hart recorded the sale in his diary, but did not write down the name of Dinah and Friday's seller in the diary.
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Transcript of the source document:
"[page 6]
Dinah and her son Friday were bought April ye 9th 1771. Dinah was then supposed to be about twenty years of age. Friday was born May ye 29th 1767. The two cost 356 pounds." - Event Type
- Sale
- Date
- April 9, 1771
- Location of Event
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Preceding Event
- 1767-05-29 Birth: Friday Truehart
- Primary Participants
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Dinah (b. 1751)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02703
Role: Sold Person
Age: 20
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Oliver Hart Sr. (1723-1795)
Verbatim description from source:
"Dinah was then supposed to be about twenty years of age"Friday Truehart (b. 1767)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02700
Role: Sold Person
Age: 4
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Oliver Hart Sr. (1723-1795)
Verbatim description from source:
"her son Friday; Friday was born May ye 29th 1767" - Additional Participants
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Oliver Hart Sr. (1723-1795)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02702
Role: Enslaver, Buyer - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Resource class
- Event