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Removal of Phillis and her son Charles to Louisiana by slaveholder Nicholas Van Wickle

1818-04-22
Middlesex County Clerk

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Phillis and her son Charles were among the victims of the slave-trading ring operated by Middlesex County judge Jacob Van Wickle. This document is a record of the removal of Phillis (aged 25) and Charles (aged one and a half years) from the state of…

Manumission of Abraham Glasgow by slaveholder Andrew Kirkpatrick

1809-05-01
Middlesex County Clerk

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Slaveholder Andrew Kirkpatrick manumitted a man named Abraham Glasgow on May 1, 1809. Kirkpatrick and Glasgow appeared in court on April 29, 1809. The county officials examined Abraham Glasgow’s certificate of baptism to confirm that he was between…