1818-08-21 Manumission: Samuel Lane

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00012
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 274
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 275

Manumission of Samuel Lane (certificate dated 1818-08-21, deed dated 1818-08-21), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 274-275. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
Slaveholder Andrew Kirkpatrick manumitted Samuel Lane on August 21, 1818. Samuel Lane was between 21 and 40 years old, but his exact age was not recorded by the county officials. Kirkpatrick noted that he manumitted Lane "especially in consideration of his services for several years to me rendered." Kirkpatrick described Lane as "negro man named Sam, but who calls himself Samuel Lane."

The Middlesex County Book of Manumissions and Removals contains two records related to Samuel Lane's manumission. The Certificate of Manumission, issued on August 21, 1818, by officials Abraham Van Arsdalen (Overseer of the Poor of the township of North Brunswick), Thomas Hance and John Gillman (two Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County), appears on page 274. The Deed of Manumission signed by Andrew Kirkpatrick on August 21, 1818, appears on pages 274-275. These documents were recorded in the book by Middlesex County Clerk William P. Deare on August 24, 1818.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
August 21, 1818
Location of Event
New Brunswick
Primary Participants

Samuel Lane
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00007
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro man named Sam, but who calls himself Samuel Lane"
Additional Participants

Thomas Hance
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00227
Role: Judge

John Gillman
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00283
Role: Judge

Abraham Van Arsdalen (d. ca. 1825)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00276
Role: Overseer of the Poor

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00006
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event