1806-06-23 Manumission: Ishmael

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01948
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: 29

TRANSCRIPT:

State of New Jersey, Gloucester County.

We certify that on this Twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and six, James Stratton of the Township of Woolwich 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 said County, his Slave named, Ishmael, 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 the age of twenty one years, nor above the age of forty years. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, the day and year above written.

Overseers of the Poor of the
Township of Woolwich
Samuel Paul Samuel Lippincott.

Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Gloucester
Nicholas Justice )
Rich'd Fittermary ) J. Peace.

[Verso]

Certificate for
Mulatto Ishmael

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester
County in Lib A of Manumission of Slaves
November 22d, 1806.

C. Oden Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
June 23, 1806
Location of Event
Woolwich
Primary Participants

Ishmael
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05388
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Stratton
Verbatim description from source:
"Mulatto Ishmael "
Additional Participants

James Stratton
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05383
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

Charles Ogden
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04439
Role: County Clerk

Samuel Paul
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05384
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich Township

Samuel Lippincott
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05385
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich Township

Nicholas Justice
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05386
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

Richard Fittermary
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05387
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event