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(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Two Last Wills and Testaments with slave content, being the wills of Thomas Jansen and his son Zacharias, of Shawangunk, Ulster County, NY. Folio, first is 4 pages, second is 8 pages. Ulster County, NY, 1796; 1805
Thomas leaves his son, "one bed and bedstead with all its furniture, Also his choice out of three of my Negro boys, viz. Andreas, Ephraim and Joe." He also leaves 3 slaves to his son Cornelius. In the will of Zacharias, he leaves "a Negro wench named Nan" to his sister-in-law. Slavery was common in upstate New York. Sojourner Truth was raised on a farm in Orange County.
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