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1802, Samson Jeters, Manumission
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Title
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1802, Samson Jeters, Manumission
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Identifier
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NJS-EVE-00061
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Event Description
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Joseph Hutchinson of East Windsor, Middlesex County, New Jersey, manumitted two enslaved men on April 8, 1802. The names of the men who were manumitted were Samson Jeters and Thomas Wildes.
The certificate of manumission for Samson Jeters was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of East Windsor (Joshua Ely, Jonathan Brown) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Jonathan Combs, Robert Willson) on April 8, 1802. The document stated that Samson Jeters 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. Samson Jeters's exact age was not recorded in the document. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on October 18, 1802.
East Windsor was part of Middlesex County at this time, but it would later become part of Mercer County in 1838.
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Date
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8 April 1802
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Primary Participant Description (verbatim)
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slave named Samson Peters
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Sex
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Male
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Age
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Adult
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21 to 40
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Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 37
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Manumission of Samson Jeters (certificate dated 1802-04-08), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 37. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
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Record Contributor
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Isaac Guzmán
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Jesse Bayker