Simon Wilmer

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Identifier
NJS-PER-05446
Given Name
Simon
Family Name
Wilmer
Sex
Male
Occupation
Religious
Biographical Description
Simon Wilmer was an enslaver who lived in Swedesboro, within the township of Woolwich, Gloucester County, in the early 19th century. A manumission document he filed in 1820 identified him as the "Rector of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Swedesborough." This refers to the institution now known as Trinity Episcopal "Old Swedes" Church. He was the rector of the church from 1808 to 1820.
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white person
enslaver
clergy
Places
Swedesboro
Enslaver of
Lydia Bradley (b. ca. 1783)
References

Thomas Cushing and Charles E. Sheppard, History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Citizens (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883). For mentions of rector Simon Wilmer, see "Public Schools in Swedesboro" and "Trinity, or Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Swedesboro," pages 302-306, https://archive.org/details/historyofcountie03cush/page/302.
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Jesse Bayker
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