1817, Phillis, Sale
- Title
- 1817, Phillis, Sale
- Description
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In 1817, Staats Van Deursen (Treasurer of Queen's College, later Rutgers Univesity) sold Phillis to a man named Jacob Klady, a New Jersey landholder who was getting ready to move to Ouachita Parish in Louisiana to establish a plantation. Klady took Phillis to Louisiana with him. Phillis was aged 22 at this time.
Around the same time, Staats Van Deursen's brother William Van Deursen sold a woman named Dinah to Jacob Klady for relocation to Louisiana. - Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00280
- Event Type
- Freedom status transaction: Sale
- Action Status
- Completed
- Date
- September 1817
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Preceding Event
- 1817, Phillis, Removal
- Source
- Removal certificate for Phillis (1817-09-23) recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 208. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Related Event
- 1817, Dinah, Sale
- Primary Participant
- Phillis (b. 1795)
- Freedom Status
- Enslaved
- Age
- Adult
- 22
- Buyer
- Jacob Klady
- Seller
- Staats Van Deursen (b. 1773)
- Source Resource
- https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/2331
- Source Site
- https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home
- Sex
- Female
- Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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