Manumission certificate for Phillip Bitto, manumitted by Thomas Thorn of Chesterfield, Burlington County
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02818
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- Burlington County Clerk
- Location Created
- Chesterfield
- Date
- April 14, 1790
- Transcript
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State of New-jersey.
Burlington }
County, ss. }
We do hereby certify, that on the
fourteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord 1790, Thomas Thorn of the Township
of Chesterfield in the County of Burlington, brought
before us, two of the Justices of the Peace of the
County aforesaid, and two of the Overseers of the
Poor of aforesaid Township, his Negro Slave,
named Phillip Bitto; who on View and Examination
appeared to us to be sound in mind, and not under
any bodily Incapacity of Obtaining a support,
and also is not under Twenty-one years of Age,
nor above Thirty-five: In Witness whereof,
we have hereunto set our Hands, the day above
written.
John Pope } Justices.
Isaac Cowgill. }
John Thorn }
John Middleton Junr } Overseers of the Poor.
Recorded in the Clerks Office for the County of Burlington at Burlington in
Book C of Deeds
Phillips - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten document, single sheet double-sided
- Archival Collection
- Elizabeth H. Matlack Collection (MSS 224)
- Archival Location
- File 1
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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