Jacob Klady

Name

Jacob Klady

Identifier

NJS-PER-00261

Given Name

Jacob

Family Name

Klady

Sex

Male

Description

Jacob Klady was an enslaver who lived in New Brunswick, NJ, in the early 19th century. In 1817, he divested of his landholdings in New Jersey and moved to Ouachita, Louisiana, to establish a plantation there. He sold a farm of 139 acres to the Township of North Brunswick for $6,992 for use as the municipality's "poorhouse farm." He then bought enslaved people in New Jersey and took them to Louisiana. Among the people he brought to Louisiana were Phillis and Dinah (two young women Klady bought from Staats Van Deursen and William Van Deursen) and a young man named Ben (purchased from James Smith).

Bibliographic Citation

Bayker, Jesse, Christopher Blakley, and Kendra Boyd. “His Name Was Will: Remembering Enslaved Individuals in Rutgers History.” In Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, edited by MARISA J. FUENTES and DEBORAH GRAY WHITE, 58–81. Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Wall, John Patrick, and Harold E. Pickersgill. History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1664-1920. Vol. 2. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1921. Page 424.

Clayton, W. Woodford, ed. History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Their Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. Page 745-6.

U.S. Senate. Report from the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Monroe, Louisiana, Under Act of 1851, for the Settlement of Certain Classes of Private Land Claims Within the Bastrop Grant. 32d Cong., 2d Sess., 1852, S. Doc. 4. (See p. 620 and other numerous land deeds for Jacob Klady in Ouachita Parish)

Robinson, Merritt M. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Vol. 1. New Orleans, LA: E. Johns & Co., 1842. Page 25.

Sale of Dick from Jacob Klady to Michel LeVillian. Ouachita, LA, April 22, 1820. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (online database).

Sale of Felicity from Jacob Klady to Michel LeVillian. Ouachita, LA, April 22, 1820. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820 (online database).

Source Resource

https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/2111

Source Site

https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home

Occupation

Landowning

Contributor

Jesse Bayker