Jacob Stokes
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-05378
- Given Name
- Jacob
- Family Name
- Stokes
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- Jacob Stokes was a white man who lived in New Jersey in the early 19th century. He was a co-executor and heir of the estate of another man of the same name—Jacob Stokes—who had died sometime before May 1805. The precise familial relationship between him and the deceased Jacob Stokes is uncertain. On behalf of the estate of the deceased Jacob Stokes, he manumitted two people named Fanny Smothers and Pero Fisher. These events took place in Newton Township, Gloucester County (in the area of present-day Camden County).
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- white person
- enslaver
- executor or administrator for estate of enslaver
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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Additional Participant in:
- 1805-05-14 Manumission: Fanny Smothers, Pero Fisher (Role: Executor or Administrator)
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