Recognition for Caesar

c. 1695

Unknown

Adolph Philipse, merchant and politician, the owner of Philipsburg Manor.

Artist unknown / Museum of the City of New York. 33.45.

April 9, 1750

Unknown

This ad appeared in the New-York Gazette Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy, New York City, New York.

Library of Congress.

January 6, 1752

Unknown

This ad appeared in the January 6, 1752 New-York Weekly Post-Boy and includes a reference to "a Negro Man who understands grinding," likely Caesar.

Courtesy, Newsbank/Readex, Early American Newspapers Collection.

March 22, 1755

Unknown

This document, a census of enslaved men and women, lists Caesar and others as the property of Josiah Martin in 1755.

New York State Archives, NY Council Papers (Series A1894) 80:113.