1808, Will, Labor

Title: 1808, Will, Labor
Description: An enslaved man named Will performed construction labor for the first permanent building for Queen's College (later Rutgers). The building is now known as Old Queens. Will's enslaver Jacob Dunham hired out Will to the college to work at the construction site.

Around September 1808, Will worked to lay the foundation for the building. On September 28, 1808, Abraham Blauvelt, chairman of the Queen's Building Committee, recorded a payment for $5.60 to Jacob Dunham for Will's labor on the foundation. Blauvelt's accounting record does not provide further details, but based on the cost of labor, one might estimate that the payment of $5.60 was for about one to two weeks of work.
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00032
Event Type: Labor
Action Status: Completed
Date: September 28, 1808
Date Certainty: Approximate
Location: Old Queens Building
Following Event: 1809, Will, Labor
Source: Entry 15. Blauvelt, Abraham, Account book, 1794-1809 (MC 720). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Primary Participant: Will
Primary Participant Description: negro
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver: Jacob Dunham (1767-1832)
Age: Adult
Author: Abraham Blauvelt (1764-1838)
Hirer: Abraham Blauvelt (1764-1838)
Organization: Rutgers University
Currency: dollar
Price: 5.60
Task Performed: construction labor on the foundation for Old Queens building
Source Resource: https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/1621
Source Site: https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home
Sex: Male
Contributor: Jesse Bayker

Item sets: Rutgers-Aggregation; Aggregation

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