1799-08-24 Manumission: Sarah Green

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01939
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: 20

TRANSCRIPT:

Gloucester county to Wit )
We do hereby Certify that on this
24 Day of August in the year of our
Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and
Ninty Nine William Eldradge of the Township of Greenwich in the
said County of Gloucester Brought before us Two of the overseers
of the Poor of the said Township and Two of the Justices of the
Peace of the County his Slave Sarah Green 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 in not under the age of Twenty one
years nor above the age of Forty years in Witness Were of We have
hereunto Set our hands, the Day & year above Written.

James C. Wood ) Overseers of the Poor
Thomas Reeves ) of the Township

Jeffery Clark ) Justices of the Peace of
I Pine ) the said County.

[Verso]

Sarah Green
Surtificate for
Wm. Eldredge
Negro.

Recorded
Event Type
Manumission
Date
August 24, 1799
Location of Event
Greenwich
Primary Participants

Sarah Green
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05351
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Eldredge
Verbatim description from source:
"his Slave Sarah Green"
Additional Participants

William Eldredge
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05347
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

James C. Wood
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05348
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Greenwich Township

Thomas Reeves
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05349
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Greenwich Township

Jeffery Clark
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04480
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

I Pine
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05350
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event