1820-06-17 Manumission: Lydia Bradley

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01961
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.

This manumission took place in Swedesboro, which was then part of the township of Woolwich.

TRANSCRIPT:

[DOCUMENT 43]

To all to Whom these presents shall come or may Concern I, Simon Wilmer, Rector of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Swedesborough in the County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey Sent Greeting

Know ye, that I the said Simon Wilmer, for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have, and by those presents do hereby manunit and set free my Negro Slave Lydia Bradly of the age of thirty seven years On Christman Day next ensueing the date hereof, she being at this time of sound mind and under no bodily incapacity of obtaining her support. So that neither I myself my heirs executors or administrators can hereafter have claim or demand the said Lydia, or her labour or services as a Slave, In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal. this Seventeenth day of June. in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty 1820.

S. Wilmer (Seal)

Sealed and Delivered in the presence
of Thos. Wilkison
W. Harrison

State of New Jersey Gloucester County ss
Be it known that on the seventeenth day of June A Domine Eighteen hundred and twenty before me the subscriber Commissioner for taking the acknowledgement and proof of deeds in and for the said County personally came Simon Wilmer the Grantor to the above instrument of Manumission and acknowledged that he Signed Sealed and delivered the same as his Act and deed to and for the uses and purposes therein contained.
Acknowledged and the Day and year above written before me
Tho's Wilkins

[Verso]

30 June 1820 Manumission of Lydia Bradley
Rec'd 30 June 1820 and Recorded in the Clerks Office of
Gloucester County in Liber A page 9 of Manumissions
Hendry Clk

[DOCUMENT 44]

State of New Jersey Gloucester County to wit.

We do hereby certify, that on this Seventeenth day of June One Thousand Eight hundred and twenty. The Reverind Simon Wilmer of Swedesborough in the Township of Woolwich in the County aforesaid 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 Lydia Bradley 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 Pierson ) Overseers of the poor of the
Leanard Fisler ) said Township

Samuel Cooper ) Justices of the peace in and for
Robt. Littermay ) the said County of Gloucester

30 June 1820

[Verso]

Certificate Simon Wilmer

Simon Wilmer
Rec'd 30 June 1820 and recorded in the Clerks
Office of Gloucester County in Book A page 8
of Manumissions.
Hendry Clk
Event Type
Manumission
Date
June 17, 1820
Location of Event
Swedesboro
Woolwich
Primary Participants

Lydia Bradley (b. ca. 1783)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05453
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 37
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Simon Wilmer
Verbatim description from source:
"Negro Slave Lydia Bradly of the age of thirty seven years"
Additional Participants

Simon Wilmer
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05446
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

Thomas Wilkins
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05451
Role: Witness

W. Harrison
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05452
Role: Witness

John Pierson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05447
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich Township

Leanard Fisler
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05448
Role: Overseer of the Poor
Comment: Overseer of the Poor of Woolwich Township

Samuel Cooper
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05449
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

Robert Littermay
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05450
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Gloucester County

Thomas Hendry
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04440
Role: County Clerk
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event