Names of People Enslaved by Mayors

Mayor	Names of Enslaved	Date of Record
William Beekman	Fernando and Rachel	1656, 1701
Cornelius Steenwyck	Mattheu	1662
William Dervall	Mingo	1675
Nicholas De Meyer	Arrow	1675
Thomas Willett	Jethro	1676
Gabriel Minvielle	Isabella and “children of my Spanish Indian woman called Koffey;” Danielle (Daniel); Catharina, Chrispina, and the child Marta; Prince	1676, 1698, 1680
Nicholas Bayard	John	1689
Francis Rombouts	Jacob and “Indian woman called Diana”	1692
Peter Delanoy	Nanny	1696
Thomas Noel	Robben and John, men; Vilet and Mercey, women; girls Izabell, Hannah, and Susannah; and boys Jack, Robben, and Clase	1704
Robert Walters	Sarah Robins	1711
Ebenezer Wilson	Robin	1717
Robert Lurting	Kate	1721
David Provoost	Jenny and Joa; Jane	1723
Jacobus Van Cortlandt	Pompey, Piero, John, and Frank; Hester; Hannah and her existing children; Andrew Saxton	c. 1730’s
Isaac de Riemer	Dean, Florah, Hagg, Harry, Joan, and Thom	1731
John Cruger	Deptford	1741
John Cruger Jr.	Hanover	1741
Stephen Bayard	Dina, Ben, Pashanse and Pegey	1722, 1741, 1757
Paul Richard	Galloway and Elizabeth; Maria and Cato	c.1730’s; 1741
David Mathews	Dinah, aged seven days	1770
Gerardus Stuyvesant	Harry, John, Cyrus, Gimm, Abraham, and Isaac. Isabell, Bett, Anna, big Mary, and a girl Phoebe. Gansey, Dick, and Syphax, boys Primus and Scipio, Peg, and girls little Mary and Lucy	1786
James Duane	Daun (Dan), age 25, and Sam	1792
DeWitt Clinton	Jack, Jenny, and Massa	1799, 1805, 1810
Philip Hone	Charlotte	1809
Richard Varick	Jenny (Jin), Frank, and Peter Anthony, age 32	1810 and 1812

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