1818-02-14 Removal Registration: Mark

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01705
Source
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 211

Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 211. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
Event Description
A removal certificate is a document authorizing an enslaver to relocate (remove) an enslaved person out of the state of New Jersey. The following removal certificate was found among Somerset County Clerk's records.

Record location: Book A, Page 211
Reason for relocation: enslaved person is sold out of the state and will be taken away by the buyer
Enslaved person: Mark, aged 30
Enslavers involved: Frederick Stryker, who sold Mark to Thomas Nesbitt Jr.
Original place of residence: Franklin, Somerset County
Destination: Mississippi
Judges who authorized this removal: Andrew Howell and Dickinson Miller
Date signed by the judges: 14 February 1818
Date recorded by the county clerk: 28 April 1818
County clerk: Samuel Swan

Note that the buyer who was taking Mark to Mississippi was originally a resident of Bridgewater, Somerset County.

The next page (p. 212) has a related certificate for Sarah Ann who was also taken away by Thomas Nesbitt.
Event Type
Removal Registration
Date
February 14, 1818
Location of Event
Franklin (Somerset County)
Bridgewater
Mississippi
Primary Participants

Mark (b. ca. 1788)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04164
Role: Relocated Person
Age: 30
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Frederick Stryker
- Thomas Nesbitt Jr.
Verbatim description from source:
"Mark a negro man slave for life the property of Frederick Stryker of the Township of Franklin / said Mark being of the age of about thirty years"
Additional Participants

Frederick Stryker
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03223
Role: Enslaver, Seller
Comment: resident of Franklin

Thomas Nesbitt Jr.
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04123
Role: Enslaver, Buyer
Comment: going to the Mississippi Territory with enslaved people that he bought in New Jersey

Samuel Swan (1771-1844)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02553
Role: County Clerk

Andrew Howell (ca. 1768-1834)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03087
Role: Judge

Dickinson Miller
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04122
Role: Judge
Resource class
Event