1795-09-09 Marriage: Peter Hill, Tina Lewis Hill

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01983
Source

Silvio A. Bedini, “Peter Hill, the First African American Clockmaker,” in A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History and Masculinity, ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins, vol. 1, 2 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 252–73. See transcript on p. 259.
Event Description
Peter Hill and Tina Lewis were married on 9 September 1795, by Thomas Adams, Justice of the Peace for Burlington County.

The following is a transcript of the marriage record, as transcribed by historian Silvio A. Bedini and printed in his biographical essay about Peter Hill's life:

"County of Burlington SS. These are to certify that on the 9th day of Sept. 1795 I the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Burlington joined Peter Hill of the City of Burlington Clock & Watch Maker and Tina Lewis of the same place Spinster (being free People of Colour) in the holy bonds of Matrimony and them pronounced Man and wife. Given under my hand this 6th day of October 1795.
Tho.s Adams J. P."
Event Type
Marriage
Date
September 9, 1795
Location of Event
Burlington
Primary Participants

Peter Hill (1767-1820)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04782
Role: Spouse
Age: 28
Status: Free

Tina Lewis Hill
Person identifier: NJS-PER-05575
Role: Spouse
Age category: Adult
Status: Free
Additional Participants

Thomas Adams
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04763
Role: Judge
Comment: Justice of the Peace
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event