1804-08-27 Manumission: Cuff
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- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00082
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 55
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Manumission of Cuff (certificate dated 1804-08-27), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 55. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Event Description
- Cuff was manumitted by Abraham Smalley of Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of Piscataway (Edward Griffith, David Coriell Jr.) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Samuel F. Randolph, David Dunham) on August 27, 1804. The document stated that Cuff 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. Cuff's exact age was not recorded in the document. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on September 17, 1804.
- Event Type
- Manumission
- Date
- August 27, 1804
- Location of Event
- Piscataway
- Primary Participants
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Cuff
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00527
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Smalley
Verbatim description from source:
"slave named Cuff" - Additional Participants
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Samuel Fitz Randolph (1741-1811)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00030
Role: JudgeDavid Dunham (1745-1807)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00113
Role: JudgeEdward Griffith
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00025
Role: Overseer of the PoorDavid Coriell Jr.
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00026
Role: Overseer of the PoorWilliam Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkAbraham Smalley
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00112
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter - Record Contributor
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker