Manumission deed and certificate for Adam, manumitted by James Sterling of Burlington
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02820
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- Burlington County Clerk
- Location Created
- Burlington
- Date
- February 16, 1795
- Transcript
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City of Burlington State of New Jersey
To whom it may Concern
These are to Certify that I James Sterling
Esquire Recorder of the said City of Burlington
have Manumitted and set free, and by these
presents do Absolutely Manumit and set
free my Negroe man Adam he being not
under twenty one Years of Age, nor above
thirty five.— In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
Sixteenth day of February in the Year of
our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and
Ninety five 1795.—
Jams Sterling
Sealed and Delivered }
in the presence of }
Wm Coxe junr }
County of Burlington ss.
We do hereby Certify that on this sixteenth
day of February in the Year of our Lord one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety five
James Sterling Esquire of the City of
Burlington in the said County of
Burlington, brought before us, two of the
Overseers of the Poor of said City and Township
of Burlington, and two of the Justices of
the Peace of said County, his slave named
Adam, who on view and Examination
appears 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 here-
unto set our hands, the Sixteenth day of February
in the Year of our Lord one Thousand
Seven Hundred and Ninety five. 1795.
Wm Coxe junr }
Thos Adams } Justices of the Peace of the County of Burlington
John Hendry }
John Stockton } Overseers of the Poor of Burlington Township
[verso]
Manumission
of
Adam formerly
a Slave of James Sterling's
Esquire
Burlington 1795
Burlington
Recorded in the Clerk's Office for
the County of Burlington in Lib:
B of Deeds fol: 182
Lawrence Clk - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten document with wax seal, large folded sheet (effectively 4 pages)
- Archival Collection
- Miscellaneous Documents (MSS 220)
- Archival Location
- File 6
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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