LIST OF AFRICAN AMERICAN INDIVIDUALS IN JAY HOUSEHOLDS

Below is a list of African Americans mentioned in this book, organized by Jay households. Dates of birth and death are included when available. Names of people associated with more than one household are repeated, with key events like manumission or giving birth listed in the household where they occurred. If the person held or attained a status other than enslaved, that is also noted.

Limits in information and the social structures of slavery and gradual emancipation make it difficult, as well as anachronistic, to construct a family tree including all the African Americans working and living in Jay households. Only in some instances, which are covered in the book, is it clear that the people listed here were related. This list should not be considered parallel to the family tree on the preceding pages, although the information should be read in tandem. The organization by Jay household is not meant to suggest that the agency and familial relationships of African Americans in the narrative were not central to their experiences or of lesser importance than relationships among Jay family members. Even so, the structure of the following data speaks to the vulnerability and isolation that shaped lives lived in slavery and afterward.

• Augustus and Anne Marie Bayard Jay Household
• Ben (transported to Madeira)
• Peter and Mary Van Cortlandt Jay Household
• Brash (transported to Madeira, 1741), Hannah, Castor, Peter (aka Peet?), Anthony, Moll, Susan, Kingston, Zilpha (free 1781), Old Plato (free 1781; died 1791), Young Plato, Frank, Clarinda, Old Mary (died 1797), Young Mary
• Peter Jay and Mary Duyckinck Jay Households
• Susan, Peter Johnson (aka Peet; free 1814), Caesar (free 1824), Sylvia (free 1824)
• Anna Maricka Jay Household
• Hannah (free 1791)
• John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay Household
• 1774–1784: Abbe (died in France 1783), Claas (aka Massey, who departed with British in 1783?), Benoit (born c. 1765, free c. 1784),
• 1784–1802: Peet, Essex, Maria, Yaff, David, Benny, Phillis, Frank, Plato, Eliza, Caesar, Dinah (and 2-year-old child), Clarinda (married to Pompey; unnamed child died 1792), Zilpah.
• John Jay Household
• 1802–1829: Zilpah (child under 2 years of age died 1811; free 1817), Clarinda (free by 1820), Chester Tilliston, elder (employee), Chester Tillitson, younger (indentured servant), Jack Pine (indentured servant)
• Peter Jay Munro Household
• Candice (free 1803), Nelly, Charlot
• Peter Augustus Jay Household
• Caesar Valentine (servant)
• William Jay and Augusta McVickar Jay Household
• Clarinda (died 1837), Zilpah
• Household of John Jay II and Eleanor Field Jay
• Zilpah Montgomery (not listed in census as member of household; died 1872)