1807-04-17 Manumission: Benjamin James
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- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00093
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 65
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Manumission of Benjamin James (certificate dated 1807-04-17, deed dated 1807-04-17), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 65. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Event Description
- Benjamin James, aged 25, was manumitted by Samuel Eli of East Windsor, Middlesex County, 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 Benjamin James 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.
- Event Type
- Manumission
- Date
- April 17, 1807
- Location of Event
- East Windsor
- Primary Participants
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Benjamin James (b. 1782)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00538
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 25
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Samuel Ely
Verbatim description from source:
"negro slave called Benjamin James of the age of twenty five or thereabouts" - Additional Participants
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Andrew Rowan
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00118
Role: JudgeJohn James
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00128
Role: JudgeJonathan Brown
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00060
Role: Overseer of the PoorWilliam Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkSamuel Ely
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00129
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter - Record Contributor
- Isaac Guzmán
- Jesse Bayker