Manumission deed and certificate for Adam Brum, by Michael Swing
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-03097
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Location Created
- Fairfield
- Date
- January 8, 1800
- Transcript
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I Michael Swing of Fairfield Township in Cumberland County & State of New Jersey do hereby set free from bondage, my negro man named Adam Brum about twenty two years of age and do for myself my heirs, Executors and Administrators, release unto the said Adam Brum all my right and all claim whatsoever as to his person or to any estate he may acquire, hereby declaring the said negro man named Adam Brum absolutely free, without any interruption from me, or any person claiming under me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th Day of January in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred.
Michel Swing
Sealed & Delivered }
in the presence of }
Moses Burt
Enoch Gibbs
[verso]
Be yt Remembered that on the 8th Day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred Micl Swing personally appeared before me and Declared by his vollentery consent that he amansipated from that time his negro Man Adam about the age of twenty two years and I do sertify from under my Hand and Seal that the sd Negro Adam ys a whearty Healthy Negro and in Known way decrepped
Givin under My Hand and
Seal the Date above
Manumission
of Negro
Joseph Ogden justes pece
Cumberld County
Farefeald township
Rec'd & Recorded in the Clerks Office of the County of
Cumberland in the State of New Jersey in Book B.
of Miscellaneous Records, page 110 &c
A. Pierson Clk - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten document, single sheet of paper double-sided
- Archival Location
- Archive File S69
- Record Contributor
- Brittney Ingersoll
- Kelsey Heflin
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