Manumission certificate for Miller, manumitted by Abraham S. Neilson
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00638
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Location Created
- North Brunswick
- Date
- May 18, 1822
- Description
- Original certificate of manumission for Miller, preserved in Neilson Family Papers. A copy of same can be found in the Middlesex County Book of Manumissions on page 359.
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County to wit, We do hereby certify that
On this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred & twenty two, Abrm. S.
Neilson of the firm James H. Neilson of the Township
of North Brunswick in the County of Middlesex
aforesaid, brought before us, the Overseer of the poor
of the said Township of North Brunswick, and two
of the Justices of the Peace of the said County of
Middlesex, his male slave named Miller, who
on view & examination appears to us to be sound
in mind, and not under any bodily incapacity
of obtaining a support, and also is not under
the age of twenty one years nor above the age of
forty years.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands the day & year above written
Abrm. Van Arsdalen } Overseer of the poor of North Brunswick
Nicholas Booraem Jr. }
James Dunham } Justices of the peace
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Certificate of slave Miller
Received in Middlesex
Clerks office May 18, 1822
Recorded in Book of
Manumissions - Folio
359 by
Wm. P. Deare CLK
May 18 - Language
- English
- Archival Collection
- Neilson Family Papers, 1768-1908 (MC 933)
- Archival Location
- Box 4, Folder 45: J & J Neilson - Papers relating to purchase of slaves
- Record Contributor
- Kendra Boyd
- Jesse Bayker
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