1801-11-30 Manumission: Sylvia Bloomfield

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00057
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 33

Manumission of Sylvia Bloomfield (certificate dated 1801-11-30), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 33. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
The Freeman family of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, manumitted two enslaved people on November 30, 1802. Sylvia Bloomfield was manumitted by Israel Freeman. Sharper Roberson was manumitted by Rheuben Freeman at the same time.

The certificate of manumission for Sylvia Bloomfield was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of Woodbridge (Ezekiel Ayers, George Harrison) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (James Bonney, Ichabod Potter) on November 30, 1801. The document stated that Sylvia Bloomfield was examined in court and met the eligibility requirements for manumission in New Jersey, i.e. the person was 21 to 40 years old and was "sound in mind and not under any bodily incapacity" of obtaining a livelihood. Sylvia Bloomfield's exact age was not recorded in the document. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on June 10, 1802.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
November 30, 1801
Location of Event
Woodbridge
Related Event
1801-11-30 Manumission: Sharper Roberson
Primary Participants

Sylvia Bloomfield
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00452
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Israel Freeman
Verbatim description from source:
"slave named Silvia Bloomfield"
Additional Participants

James Bonney
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00046
Role: Judge

Ichabod Potter
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00032
Role: Judge

Ezekiel Ayers
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00028
Role: Overseer of the Poor

George Harrison
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00027
Role: Overseer of the Poor

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

Israel Freeman
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00052
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event