1793-07-16 Manumission: Tabby Still

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01935
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: 16

TRANSCRIPT:

Gloucester County ss

We do hereby Certify that on this Sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred &. Ninety three, Joseph Hugg of the Town of Gloucester, in the County of Gloucester aforesaid Esquire brought before us two of the Overseers of the Poor of said Town, and two of the Justices of the Peace of said County, his Slave named Tabby Still.

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 Day and Year above written.

Jno Griffyth ) Justices of
Samul Kenard ) the Peace

John Heritage ) Overseers
Peter Thompson ) of the Poor.

[Verso]

Certificate of the Freedom of Joseph Hugg's Negroe Man Tabbey.
Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester County this 19th August 1793

E. Clark Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
July 16, 1793
Location of Event
Gloucester City (Gloucestertown)
Primary Participants

Tabby Still
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05336
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Joseph Hugg
Verbatim description from source:
"Slave named Tabby Still / Negroe Man Tabbey"
Additional Participants

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

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

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

Peter Thompson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05334
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor for Gloucestertown

John Griffyth
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05335
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

Samuel Kenard
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04486
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event