1820-08-26 Manumission: Tom

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01886
Source
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 265
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 266

Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 265. Somerset County Clerk's Office.

Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 266. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
Event Description
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Pages 265-266, contain a manumission deed and certificate for Tom, who was released from slavery on 26 August 1820 in Montgomery. Tom's primary enslaver, Job Stockton, had died earlier in 1820, and the manumission was performed by Ebenezer Stockton and James S. Green, the administrators of the estate of Job Stockton.

In the manumission deed, Ebenezer Stockton and James S. Green noted that they freed Tom "for divers good causes us thereunto moving and also for and in consideration of the regard the said Job Stockton in his lifetime entertained for his negro slave named Tom."

The manumission certificate states that Tom was an adult between 21 and 40 years old, but his exact age was not recorded.

The documents were entered into the book by the County Clerk (Samuel Swan) on 9 September 1820. The manumission certificate was signed by the Overseers of the Poor for the township of Montgomery (William Duryea and Peter Voorhees) and Justices of the Peace for Somerset County (Ralph Sansbury and Josias Ferguson).
Event Type
Manumission
Keywords
Estate (deceased enslaver)
Date
August 26, 1820
Location of Event
Montgomery
Primary Participants

Tom
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04837
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Job Stockton (d. 1820)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro male slave Tom"
Additional Participants

Job Stockton (d. 1820)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03324
Role: Enslaver, Deceased
Comment: died intestate

Ebenezer Stockton (1760-1837)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03503
Role: Executor or Administrator
Comment: co-administrator for the estate of Job Stockton

Samuel Swan (1771-1844)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02553
Role: County Clerk

James Sproat Green (1792-1862)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04815
Role: Executor or Administrator
Comment: co-administrator for the estate of Job Stockton

William Duryea
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02987
Role: Overseer of the Poor

Peter Voorhees
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03481
Role: Overseer of the Poor

Ralph Sansbury
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00066
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Somerset County

Josias Ferguson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03126
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Somerset County
Record Contributor
Kelsey Heflin
Resource class
Event