1802-04-08 Manumission: Thomas Wildes

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00062
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 38

Manumission of Thomas Wildes (certificate dated 1802-04-08), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 38. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
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 Thomas Wildes 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 Thomas Wildes 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. Thomas Wildes'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.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
April 8, 1802
Location of Event
East Windsor
Related Event
1802-04-08 Manumission: Samson Jeters
Primary Participants

Thomas Wildes {or Wiles}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00457
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Joseph Hutchinson
Verbatim description from source:
"slave named Thomas Wildes"
Additional Participants

Jonathan Combs
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00061
Role: Judge

Robert Willson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00062
Role: Judge

Joshua Ely
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00059
Role: Overseer of the Poor

Jonathan Brown
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00060
Role: Overseer of the Poor

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

Joseph Hutchinson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00058
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event