Manumission certificate for Mariah Thomas, by John Sheppard
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-03098
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Location Created
- Greenwich (Cumberland County)
- Date
- January 27, 1818
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Cumberland County to wit. We do certify on this twenty seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen John Sheppard of Greenwich in the county of Cumberland & State of New Jersey brought before us two overseers of the poor of the said township of Greenwich & two of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of Cumberland his slave named Mariah Thomas who on view & examination appears to us to be sound in mind & not under any bodily incapacity of obtaining a support & also is not under the age of twenty one years nor above the age of forty years in witness hereof we have hereunto set our hands the day & year above written
Job Stiles }
Reuben Hunt } Overseers of the poor
James B. Hunt }
John Mulford } Justices of the Peace
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Certificate
Mariah Thomas
Received January 29th 1818. And recorded in Book C of miscellaneous records in the Clerks office of Cumberland County Page 80
Ebenzr Seeley - Clk - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten document, single sheet of paper double-sided
- Archival Location
- Archive File T2
- Record Contributor
- Brittney Ingersoll
- Kelsey Heflin
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