1817, Dinah, Sale
- Title
- 1817, Dinah, Sale
- Description
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Enslaver Dr. William Van Deursen of New Brunswick (alumnus and long-time trustee of Queen's College, now Rutgers University) sold Dinah, age 22, to Jacob Klady, a New Brunswick landholder who intended to move to Ouachita Parish in Louisiana and take Dinah with him. At the time of the sale, Jacob Klady promised to manumit Dinah if she served obediently for 15 years in Louisiana. This promise was probably made by Klady in order to gain Dinah's consent for the relocation, since New Jersey law required registering the consent of an enslaved person before that person could be taken out of the State of New Jersey.
Around the same time, William Van Deursen's brother Staats Van Deursen also sold a woman named Phillis to Jacob Klady for relocation to Louisiana. - Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00279
- Event Type
- Freedom status transaction: Sale
- Action Status
- Completed
- Date
- August 1817
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Preceding Event
- 1817, Dinah, Removal
- Source
- Removal certificate for Dinah (1817-08-30) recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 209. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Related Event
- 1817, Phillis, Sale
- Primary Participant
- Dinah (b. 1795)
- Freedom Status
- Enslaved
- Age
- Adult
- 22
- Buyer
- Jacob Klady
- Source Resource
- https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/2330
- Source Site
- https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home
- Sex
- Female
- Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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