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Canal Street, New York, New York County, NY, United States
Note the words "Negroes Plantation". As for the chain of title which brought the plantation under the ownership of th...
People: Simon Congo, immigrant slave, Anthony Lispenard and Anneke Jans
Lambert Spingler Congo St.Mark's Bowery.pdf
~• written by M.M. van Beuren, January 2022 reference material is embedded in the text This pdf doc details, among ot...
People: Mary Spingler, Elizabeth Spingler van Beuren, Mary Spingler Fonerden van Beuren and 14 others.
Duyckinck 1755 NYC Map Key van B genealogy.pdf
on the subject line: I encourage users to 'wander' on the map to get feel for life in Manhattan in the mid-1700s
People: Henry Spingler, Simon Congo, immigrant slave, John Smith, Leatherdresser of New York and 4 others.
Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, 1675-1934
People: John Wichman, Truman Peter Favreau, Charles Lewis Favreau, Sr and 7 others.
Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
People: John Wichman, Theodore Wichman, Jr, Hiram King Hawxhurst and 8 others.
1850 United States Federal Census
People: Willis Dilley, George Henry Burger, Lydia A Jameson and 117 others.
1870 United States Federal Census
People: Mariah Elizabeth Slater, Willis Dilley, Margaret Ellen McLaughlin and 182 others.
1860 United States Federal Census
People: Mariah Elizabeth Slater, Willis Dilley, William Henry Townsend and 132 others.
Work of Wright (1988) in NJ
afro-americans-in-nj-short-history.pdf Giles Wright Trenton NJ (1988) NJ Historical Commission
People: Samuel Congo
The Souls of African American Children: New Amsterdam - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
Joyce D. Goodfriend Further Reading: On African Americans in New Amsterdam, see Graham Russell Hodges, Root and Bra...
People: Adam Congo, Eva Congo and Simon Congo, immigrant slave