New Jersey Slavery Records · 1801, Gilbert Wallace, Manumission

1801, Gilbert Wallace, Manumission

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Title: 1801, Gilbert Wallace, Manumission
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00073
Event Description: Gilbert Wallace was manumitted by Samuel Minor of East Windsor, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of East Windsor (Joshua Ely, Jonathan Brown) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Robert Willson, Jonathan Combs) on April 23, 1801. The document stated that Gilbert Wallace 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. Gilbert Wallace's exact age was not recorded in the document. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on May 23, 1803.

East Windsor was part of Middlesex County at this time, but it would later become part of Mercer County in 1838.
Event Type: Legal: Manumission registration
Action Status: Completed
Date: 23 April 1801
Location: East Windsor, NJ
Primary Participant: Gilbert Wallace
Primary Participant Description (verbatim): slave named Gilbert Wallace
Sex: Male
Age: Adult; 21 to 40
Freedom Status: Transition
Enslaver of Primary Event Participant: Samuel Minor
Officiator: Joshua Ely; Jonathan Brown
Judge: Robert Willson; Jonathan Combs
Source: Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 46; Manumission of Gilbert Wallace (certificate dated 1801-04-23), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 46. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Author: William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Record Contributor: Isaac Guzmán; Jesse Bayker