1800-01-09 Manumission: Tenvi Freeman

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01940
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: 21

TRANSCRIPT:

To Whom It May Concern
Know Ye that my Negro Woman Named Tenvi Freeman, Aged twenty
six Years and Upwards, Is hereby Manumitted, Discharged and set free.
WITNESS my Hand and seal the Ninth day of January in the Year of Our
Lord Eighteen Hundred 1800.
John Sparks (Seal)

Witness Present
Elisha Clark

Gloucester County :ss We do hereby certify that on this Ninth Day of
December in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred John Sparks Esq. of
the said County of Gloucester brought Before us the Subscribers two of
the Overseers of the poor of the Township of Deptford and two Justices
of the peace of said County his Negro Woman a Slave Named Tenvi Freeman
Who on View and Examination Appeared 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.

Ja. Hopkins Justics
Jno. Blackwood Justics

Thomas Reeves
Levi Hooper
Overseer of the poor

[Verso]

Tenvi Freeman discharge
Recorded in the Clerks Office of the County of Gloucester.
E. Clark Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
January 9, 1800
Location of Event
Deptford
Primary Participants

Tenvi Freeman (b. ca. 1774)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05356
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 26
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Sparks
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro Woman Named Tenvi Freeman, Aged twenty six Years and Upwards"
Additional Participants

John Sparks
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04475
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

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

Thomas Reeves
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05352
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Deptford

Levi Hooper
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05353
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Deptford

James Hopkins
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05354
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

John Blackwood
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05355
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event