1788-05-10 Manumission: Berten

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01760
Source
Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration. Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. Newark: Historical Records Survey, 1940.
Event Description
The following manumission record from Gloucester County was transcribed by the Historical Records Survey Project of the Works Progress Administration. The transcript was originally published in 1940 in the book titled Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. The transcript is reproduced below as it appeared in that book.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY DOCUMENT NUMBER: 9

TRANSCRIPT:

Gloucester County ss We do hereby Certify that on this Tenth
Day of May Anno Domini One Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty Eight
Joseph Hugg of the Town and County of Gloucester brought before us,
[...] of the Overseers of the poor of the said Town, [...] two of
the Justices of the Peace of the said County his Slave named
Berten, 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 hereunto set our hands the
Tenth day of May One Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty Eight 1788.

John Glover )
John Heritage ) Overseers
John Sparks )
John Wilkins ) Justices

[Verso]

Recorded in the Clerks
Office Gloucester County 30th May 1788.

E. Clark Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
May 10, 1788
Location of Event
Gloucester City (Gloucestertown)
Primary Participants

Berten
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04477
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Joseph Hugg
Verbatim description from source:
"Slave named Berten"
Additional Participants

Joseph Hugg
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04437
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

Elisha Clark
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04438
Role: County Clerk

John Glover
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04471
Role: Overseer of the Poor

John Heritage
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04472
Role: Overseer of the Poor

John Sparks
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04475
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

John Wilkins
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04476
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event