Board 1 · 29 Lives
The Twenty-Nine
Twenty-nine named people and an infant whose entries in the British register of 1783 give a place in central New Jersey. Names and ages as the clerks wrote them.
New Brunswick
- Phillis Sparrow, 28, with Nannis, 11, Sukey, 9, and John, 3
- Phillis Farmer, 30
- Susanna Van Ryper, 24
- Abigail, 35, with an infant
- Cornelius McIntire, 28, Lissey McIntire, 24, and Bill, 6
Millstone
- Samuel Penilack, 25
- Peter Pharo, 35
Rocky Hill
- Richard Sloane, 40, born free
Somerset County
- Edmund Hill, 21
Princeton
- John Longstreet, 45
- Peter Stogdon, 23
Piscataway
- Ben Field, 38, Eleanor Field, 27, Ben, 4, and Sarah, 2
Amboy
- Joseph Skinner, 35
- Tinnia Lynch, 25
- Sally Lynch, 6
Woodbridge
- Cornelius Moss, 30
- Robert Conway, 51
Raritan Landing
- James Perrow, 38, “left free”
Bound Brook
- John Dunn, 45
Old Bridge
- William Mannan, 27
Trenton
- Jack Richards, 28
Four can be followed in Nova Scotia: Richard Sloane and John Dunn in the Birchtown muster of 1784, Phillis Farmer heading a family there, and Peter Pharo applying for land near Birchtown in 1787. See Where they went.
The Sukey listed here, Phillis Sparrow’s daughter, is a different person from the Sukey on Board 2.
Source: “Book of Negroes,” British copy, The National Archives (UK), PRO 30/55/100; Nova Scotia Archives. How the twenty-nine were identified is explained in Sources and Methods.