Caesar’s Story
Recognition for Caesar
Adolph Philipse
c. 1695
Unknown
Adolph Philipse, merchant and politician, the owner of Philipsburg Manor.
Artist unknown / Museum of the City of New York. 33.45.
Advertisement for a public auction at Philipsburgh Manor
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.
Advertisement for the lease of Philipsburg Manor
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.
List of the Negro Slaves In the mannor of Philips Burgh
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.
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