1791-10-07 Manumission: Jeffery Shores

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01763
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: 14 and 15

TRANSCRIPT:

[DOCUMENT 14]

I do hereby Certify that on the Seventh Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred & Ninty one my Slave Jeff Shores was Brought Before Jacob Gooden & John Early two of the overseers of the Poor of the Township of Greenwich in the County of Gloucester and Was manumited according to Law in the Presents of John Sparks & Thos. Carpenter Esquire, Witness my hand & Seal this Seventh Day of October 1791.

Jeffery Clark.

[Verso]

Manumission

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester
County in Lib A of Manumission of Slaves

E. Clark Clk

[DOCUMENT 15]

Gloucester County ) ..We do hereby Certify that on this eleventh
New Jersey SS s ) ......day of October in the year of Our Lord One
thousand seven hundred & Ninety One Jeffery
Clark Esquire of the Township of Greenwich
in the said County of Gloucester brought before us, two of the
overseers of the poor of said Township, and two of the Justices of
the Peace of said County. his Slave named Jeffery Shores 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 11th day of
October 1791

Taken before us the day )
and year above written )

John Sparks (Seal))
Thos Carpenter(Seal) ) Justices of the Peace

Jacob Goodin (Seal) )
John Earley (Seal) ) Overseers of the Poor

[Verso]

Manumission Recorded in the Clerks office of Gloucester County in Lib A folio of Manumission of Slaves.

E Clark Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
October 7, 1791 – October 11, 1791
Location of Event
Greenwich
Primary Participants

Jeffery Shores
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04491
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jeffery Clark
Verbatim description from source:
"Slave Jeff Shores / Slave named Jeffery Shores"
Additional Participants

Jeffery Clark
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04480
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

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

Jacob Goodin
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04488
Role: Overseer of the Poor

John Early
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04489
Role: Overseer of the Poor

Thomas Carpenter
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04490
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

John Sparks
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04475
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event