1800-05-10 Manumission: Phebe Merrill
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- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00067
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 43
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Manumission of Phebe Merrill (certificate dated 1800-05-10), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 43. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Event Description
- Phebe Merrill was manumitted by Hugh Davids of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of Woodbridge (Richard Wright, Ezekiel Ayers) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Henry Marsh, Ichabod Potter) on May 10, 1800. The document stated that Phebe Merrill 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. Phebe Merrill's exact age was not recorded in the document. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk almost 3 years later in the spring of 1803.
- Event Type
- Manumission
- Date
- May 10, 1800
- Location of Event
- Woodbridge
- Primary Participants
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Phebe Merrill
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00512
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Hugh Davids
Verbatim description from source:
"slave named Phebe Merrill" - Additional Participants
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Henry Marsh
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00038
Role: JudgeIchabod Potter
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00032
Role: JudgeRichard Wright
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00037
Role: Overseer of the PoorEzekiel Ayers
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00028
Role: Overseer of the PoorWilliam Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkHugh Davids
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00071
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter - Record Contributor
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker