1809-06-17 Manumission: Marinda Duffield

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01951
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.

TRANSCRIPT:

[DOCUMENT 34]

Gloucester County ss

To all to whom these presents shall come, it is hereby made known, that on this Eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and nine, I James Stratton of the Township of Woolwich in the said County of Gloucester, have liberated, manumitted and set free, my Negro Slave, called Marinda Duffield, of the age of Twenty five years or thereabouts: and I do hereby liberate manumit and set free, my said Negro Slave, and discharge her from all service, or demand of service to be hereafter made either by me or any person claiming by from or under me.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.
James Stratton. (Seal)

Sealed and Delivered )
in the presence of )
James B. Caldwell )
William Harrison )

[Verso]

Gloucester County: ss Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and nine, before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared James Stratton, the within named grantor, and acknowledged that he did sign seal and deliver the within instrument of manumission as his act and deed, to and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.

Taken and acknowledged the day and year aforesaid.
James B. Caldwell

[DOCUMENT 35]

State of New Jersey
Gloucester County ss

We do hereby certify, that on this Seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand, Eight hundred and nine. 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 of Woolwich, and two of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of Gloucester, his female Slave named Marinda Duffield, 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.

John Lippincott )
Vanderver Homan ) Overseers

James B. Caldwell
William Harrison

[Verso]

Manumission
Merinda Duffield

Recorded in the Clerks Office of Gloucester County in Lib A of manumission, June 22, 1809

C Ogden Clk.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
June 17, 1809
Location of Event
Woolwich
Primary Participants

Marinda Duffield (b. ca. 1784)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05402
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 25
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Stratton
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro Slave, called Marinda Duffield, of the age of Twenty five years or thereabouts / female Slave named Marinda Duffield"
Additional Participants

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

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

John Lippincott
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05399
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich

Vanderver Homan
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05400
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich

James B. Caldwell
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05362
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

William Harrison
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05401
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County
Record Contributor
Kemy Rodriguez
Resource class
Event