1807-11-18 Manumission: George Huggins Mitchfield

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01950
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.

Charles Odgen's name appears twice in the document: as a Justices of the Peace for the County and also as the clerk who recorded the document in county records.


TRANSCRIPT:

[DOCUMENT 32]

State of New Jersey
Gloucester County ss
(SEAL)
To all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting.

It is hereby made known, that on this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seven. 1807 I Mary Wood of the Township of Deptford in the said County of Gloucester. have liberated, manumited and set free my negro Slave called George Huggins Mitchfield of the age of twenty one years and I do hereby liberate, manumit and set free, my said negro Slave, and discharge him from all service or demand of service to be hereafter made, either by me or any persons claiming by, from or under me.

Mary Wood

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of us
Amos Cooper )
James Matlack )

Be it remembred that on the 18th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seven before me James Matlack one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Gloucester Personally appeared Mary Wood, the maker and grantor of the above Manumission, and acknowledged that she signed, sealed and delivered the said Manumission as her voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
Taken and acknowledged Before
James Matlack

[Verso]

Manumission of
from Mary Wood
November 18th, 1807

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester
County in Book A of manumissions

C Ogden Clk

[DOCUMENT 33]

State of New Jersey
Gloucester, to wit:

We do hereby certify, that on this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seven 1807.

Mary Wood of the township of Deptford in the 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, her Slave named George Huggins Mitchfield 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 Deptford
Amos Cooper
Job. Brown

Charles Ogden )
James Matlack ) Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Gloucester.

[Verso]

Certificate of the
Capacity of
November 18th, 1807

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester County in Lib. A. of Manumissions

C Ogden Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
November 18, 1807
Location of Event
Deptford
Primary Participants

George Huggins Mitchfield (b. ca. 1786)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05398
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 21
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mary Wood
Verbatim description from source:
"negro Slave called George Huggins Mitchfield of the age of twenty one years"
Additional Participants

Mary Wood
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05395
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

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

Amos Cooper
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05396
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Deptford

Job Brown
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05397
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Deptford

James Matlack
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04448
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event