New Jersey Information compilation for USBHP Team

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Location: New Jersey, United States

New Jersey finally outlawed slavery by 1866 having earlier provided for manumission at the urging of Quaker residents. My statements here are general and in no way complete for historical records. This is my personal page to compile information which duplicates information on several pages..

Links to current WikiTree pages:

Early 1800's Slavery Scheme Middlesex County

US Black Heritage Project New Jersey Team

African-American Resources for New Jersey

Project: New Jersey: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:New_Jersey

James N Shackleford, local resident researcher South Brunswick, Middlesex County. Research by James Nash Shackleford

A great amount of information here: Sources-New Jersey

'Franklin Park Tragedy': An NJ community expelled its African American residents — twice

A useful article here. https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/legislating-slavery-in-new-jersey

Resources

Drake, Jarrett. “Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th Century New Jersey.” New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1, no. 1 (2015): 104–25. https://doi.org/10.14713/njs.v1i1.16.

Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) .
New Jersey: Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Enslaved Africans to Perth Amboy https://middle-passage-markers.opentour.site/new-jersey-trans-atlantic-voyages-of-enslaved-africans-to-perth-amboy

Documented Middle Passage arrival sites in the continental United States. https://www.middlepassageproject.org/documented-arrival-sites

Gigantino, James J., II. “Trading in Jersey Souls: New Jersey and the Interstate Slave Trade.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 3 (2010): 281–302. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.77.3.0281.

Lost Souls Memorial Project website: https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/

Oral Histories, Rutgers look for Social interviews https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees

Pingeon, Frances D. “An Abominable Business: The New Jersey Slave Trade, 1818.” New Jersey History 109, no. 3 (1991): 15–35.

New Jersey Slavery Records © 2022 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. All rights reserved. https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home

Records Search for Profile Creations

Link to Black Birth Book of Monmouth County, New Jersey (Thanks Nanette (Gahn) Pezzutti) who transcribed the first section of the book to a table.

Records pertaining to slavery are searchable for for Essex, Gloucester, Middlesex and Salem Counties in New Jersey on Family Search (FS) and Ancestry.com. (AC). The links I have provided are mostly to images.

A basic search on FS United States, Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939 is:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3460246

Essex County, New Jersey on FS
Manumission Records spreadsheet contains the names of 492 persons paired with their enslavers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUU1HtI9DEASkUkgrEmCEMW99J7SjLCmUKNPGVHsTkA/edit#gid=1742250990

Documentation of births of black children 1804 - 1815; begin image 6 through 89:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-R9BC-1?i=5&cc=3460246

Manumissions 1805-1827 begin image 99 end 404 :
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-R9YK-Y?i=339&cc=3460246

Slave Receipts (sales) begin image 408 end 413:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-R9BH-9?i=407&cc=3460246

Gloucester County, New Jersey records pertaining to slavery were transcribed in 1940, into a book Gloucester County Slave Documents. The title page contains The New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project (a WPA project). The original book records are not digitized.

These transcribed records can be found on AC :
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/14846/images/dvm_LocHist001687-00002-0?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=1
Image 7 contains some interesting information of New Jersey slavery. There are many scholarly records to back up the page. ( I'd like to find some of these.)

Manumission Records spreadsheet contains the names of 184 persons paired with their enslavers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUU1HtI9DEASkUkgrEmCEMW99J7SjLCmUKNPGVHsTkA/edit#gid=10212516 Manumissions on AC begin image 24 end image

The FS manumission records for Gloucesterare not viewable images, they are found only in indexed/transcribed form unless you search the Images Sections:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.anyPlace=Gloucester%2C%20new%20jersey&f.collectionId=3460246

Documentation of births of slaves begin image 16 end image 23.
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/14846/images/dvm_LocHist001687-00015-1?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=15

Middlesex County, New Jersey on FS
Documentation of births of slaves, 1804-1844 begin image 244:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGD-7SJQ-D?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AZXT6-4C3Z&action=view

Manumissions 1800-1825 begin image 309 end 548:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States,_Indenture_and_Manumission_Records_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

Miscellaneous records from 1852-1880 in spreadsheet pages for out of state deaths or marriages of Middlesex residents.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yZsHeGbXqF3Z31MhiiuRLHhAOyyX0EAJ93NAN-UYHMc/edit#gid=0

Manumission Records spreadsheet contains the names of 438 persons paired with their enslavers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUU1HtI9DEASkUkgrEmCEMW99J7SjLCmUKNPGVHsTkA/edit#gid=0

US 1850 Census record spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JY7XiPdGqibzXWGPZrlVPRkrrbyl5xCq823wmOC0KLA/edit#gid=2143548041

US 1880 Census record spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VygRgHcrt5l9SACtbcpTwacc2Y6atbzwcsIEdCsJ3m8/edit#gid=2143548041

Salem County, New Jersey on FS
Manumissions 1800-1841 begin image 306 end image 370
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q6-CHY?i=305&cc=3460246

Current family projects

I have created family profiles or added to them on FS for members of the Black families with names such as: Peterson, Hush, Vandyke, Wycoff, Ten Broek, Tenbrook, Beekman, Jennings and others from Somerset, Hunterdon and Middlesex counties. My hopes are to transfer this information to WikiTree.

I have been at work on the Hush families, Aaron Hush (1845-1916) for a while.

I have started profiles on some persons in Family Search using the manumission record for Middlesex County when the last name of the enslaved person has been given:

Slave Last Name	Given Name	FS ID	Enslaver Last Name	Given Name	FS ID
Bowles	Broffo	GXVC-GN1	Combs	Lewis	GLG5-X4Q
Centurian	Catherine or Cate	GX6Z-7TS	Dye	Henry	GLGB-NK9
Charles	Philis		Vanwickle	Nicholas	GX65-BVT
Demun	Jack	GXVZ-SZR	Thornall	Israel	MCLN-SL2
Ditmus	Fanny	GX6X-3LN	Gulick	Abraham J	M5TT-C4N
Ditmus	Emaline	GX6X-7BX	Gulick	Abraham J	M5TT-C4N
Ditmus	Caroline	GX6X-RMD	Gulick	Abraham J	M5TT-C4N
Dunn	Jack	GXVZ-4PG	Goodfellow	Hezekiah	LHZ8-9L3
Dunn	Phillip	GXVZ-WW3	Dunn	Samuel	GLPY-XVP
Fisher	Jack	GXVC-JH7	Freeman	Isaac	GLPY-32B
Furman	Peter	GXX4-JQH	Marsh	Ben and John	9WTK-VJT
Harris	Charles	GXVC-6GZ	Storey	Garret	GLG5-QNK
Hawkins	George	GXVC-NLD	Davison	Robert	GL59-C3X
Hawkins	Charles	GXVC-6XN	Slayback	Abel and Jesse	GL59-747
Hendrickson	Hannah		Rattone	John	KHBV-53G
Hendrickson	Silas	GL5C-FRQ	Rattoone	John	KHBV-53G
Jacob	Silvey		Vanwickle	Nicholas	GX65-BVT
Johnson	Samuel		Vanwickle	Nicholas	GX65-BVT
Johnston	Oliver	GX6D-5QC
Lawrence	Margaret	GX6D-Y23	Rattoone	John	KHBV-53G
Lawrence	Samuel	9ZSD-NDC
Lawrence	Suzan	GL5C-6R3	Rattoone	John	KHBV-53G
Lee	Samuel	GXVC-D12
Little	Richard	GXV7-59T
Luydam	Frank	GXVC-ZRK
Manning or Lewe	Diana	GXV7-BM2	Manning	Jeremiah	LCV9-6WL
Manning	Peter	GL5D-9JW	Manning	Jeremiah	LCV9-6WL
Mendes	Benjamin	GXV7-JVF	Davids	Benjamin	GL5N-LZL
Mevvill	Phebe	GXVW-S12	Davids	Hugh	GL5N-TSS
Miller	Jane	GL5K-D9C	Simpson	John N	GL5K-6MP
Miller	Richard	GX6Z-8HS	Simpson	John N	GL5K-6MP
Mundy	Cesar	GXVZ-3DN
Noe	Saul	GXV7-17G	Noe	John Clark	GLPY-Z7G
Oppie	Thomas	GXV7-BKL
Randolph	Jack	GXVC-JXC
Randolph F	Peter	GXVC-H5R
Ross	George	GXVC-PV6
Sot	Simon	GXVZ-95Q
Titus	Thomas	GX8R-YPC
Vullentine	Richard	GXXZ-KTR
Wales	Edward	GXVC-YN7	Manning	William F	2YR3-7Q1
Wallace	Gilbert	GXVC-PPW	Minor	Samuel	GLGT-QWC
Watt	Susan		Vanwickle	Nicholas	GX65-BVT

There are a more in Middlesex County records to connect and this table has been my work space. It is possible to find profiles on these slaves and enslavers using these IDs from Family Search.

Need to: Create a list of counties by incorporation date. This would be useful as early locations had fluid borders over time as divisions were made in towns and cities.

This page is a work in progress Adams-36348 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)