1800-01-08 Manumission: Adam Brum

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01979
Source
Manumission deed and certificate for Adam Brum, by Michael Swing
Slaves in Cumberland County, New Jersey

Manumission deed and certificate for Adam Brum, by Michael Swing, January 8, 1800. Archival location: Cumberland County Historical Society. Archive File S69.

"Slaves in Cumberland County, New Jersey," by Carl L. West (transcripts of records from the Cumberland County Courthouse), reproduced as an appendix in: Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Cumberland County, New Jersey, report by Ian Hughes, on file at the Cumberland County Historical Society.
Event Description
Michael Swing of Fairfield, Cumberland County, manumitted a Black man named Adam Brum, aged 22, on 8 January 1800. Justice of the Peace Joseph Ogden certified that Adam Brum was a healthy man and not incapacitated, and thus eligible for manumission.

The original manumission deed and certificate have been preserved and are held by the Cumberland County Historical Society. A copy of the manumission record was entered into the County Clerk's Book B of Miscellaneous Records on page 110 by A. Pierson.

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Transcript of the source document:

"I Michael Swing of Fairfield Township in Cumberland County & State of New Jersey do hereby set free from bondage, my negro man named Adam Brum about twenty two years of age and do for myself my heirs, Executors and Administrators, release unto the said Adam Brum all my right and all claim whatsoever as to his person or to any estate he may acquire, hereby declaring the said negro man named Adam Brum absolutely free, without any interruption from me, or any person claiming under me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th Day of January in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred.

Michel Swing

Sealed & Delivered }
in the presence of }
Moses Burt
Enoch Gibbs

[verso]

Be yt Remembered that on the 8th Day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred Micl Swing personally appeared before me and Declared by his vollentery consent that he amansipated from that time his negro Man Adam about the age of twenty two years and I do sertify from under my Hand and Seal that the sd Negro Adam ys a whearty Healthy Negro and in Known way decrepped
Givin under My Hand and
Seal the Date above
Manumission
of Negro

Joseph Ogden justes pece


Cumberld County
Farefeald township

Rec'd & Recorded in the Clerks Office of the County of
Cumberland in the State of New Jersey in Book B.
of Miscellaneous Records, page 110 &c
A. Pierson Clk
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Event Type
Manumission
Date
January 8, 1800
Location of Event
Fairfield
Primary Participants

Adam Brum (b. ca. 1777)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05509
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 22
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Michael Swing
Verbatim description from source:
"negro man named Adam Brum about twenty two years of age"
Additional Participants

Michael Swing
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05510
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter

Joseph Ogden
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05513
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace for Cumberland County

Axel Pierson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05514
Role: County Clerk

Moses Burt
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05515
Role: Witness

Enoch Gibbs
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05516
Role: Witness
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event