1816-04-08 Manumission: Tom

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00513
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 179

Manumission of Tom (certificate dated 1816-04-08, deed dated 1816-04-08), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 179. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
Tom was manumitted by James T. Dunn of Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseers of the Poor of Piscataway (Ephraim Runyon and John Dayton) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Samuel Drake and George Boice) on April 8, 1816. The document stated that Tom 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. Tom's exact age was not recorded in the document. The deed of manumission was executed on April 8, 1816, by James T. Dunn. These documents were recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on April 18, 1816.

Dunn's brother-in-law John Smalley Jr. manumitted a man named Jack on the same day.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
April 8, 1816
Location of Event
Piscataway
Primary Participants

Tom
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01389
Role: Manumitted Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James T. Dunn
Verbatim description from source:
"negro slave Tom"
Additional Participants

Samuel Drake
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00230
Role: Judge

George Boice
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00199
Role: Judge

Ephraim Runyon
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00141
Role: Overseer of the Poor

John Dayton
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00253
Role: Overseer of the Poor

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

James T. Dunn
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00303
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event