1807-04-17 Manumission: Susan Wiles · New Jersey Slavery Records

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Identifier

NJS-EVE-00092

Source

Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 64

Manumission of Susan Wiles (certificate dated 1807-04-17, deed dated 1807-04-17), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 64. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Event Description

Susan Wiles, aged 26, was manumitted by Joseph Hutchinson of East Windsor, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseer of the Poor of East Windsor (Jonathan Brown) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Andrew Rowan, John James) on April 17, 1807. The document stated that Susan Wiles 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. This manumission was recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on April 25, 1807.

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 17, 1807

Location of Event

East Windsor

Primary Participants

Susan Wiles (b. 1781)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00537
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 26
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Joseph Hutchinson
Verbatim description from source:
"negro slave called Susan Wiles of the age of twenty six years or thereabouts"

Additional Participants

Andrew Rowan
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00118
Role: Judge

John James
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00128
Role: Judge

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