Will of John Bray, New Brunswick, NJ
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00599
- Source Type
- Will and Testament
- Author
- John Bray (ca. 1751-1834)
- Location Created
- New Brunswick
- Date
- January 10, 1834
- Description
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Will of John Bray of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, signed on January 10, 1834, and proved on May 8, 1834, after the decease of John Bray.
Item 10 enumerated in the will relates to Flora Ann, a Black girl who had the status of slave for a term in the Bray household. - Transcript
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10. To my colored girl Flora Ann provided she remains with her mistress [Ellen Bray] until she attains the age of twenty one years (at which time she will be free) and her mistress will then say she has been a good servant (but not otherwise) I give the sum of one hundred dollars payable on the day she arrives to [that] age. - Language
- English
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Microfilm: Middlesex County, NJ, Surrogate Court Records, Wills, Vol. D (1834-1846). Available on FamilySearch.org. Page 2-5. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8933-PXZ4
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- Jesse Bayker
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