1820-12-18 Manumission: Cate Centurian

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00640
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 331

Manumission of Cate Centurian (certificate dated 1820-12-18, deed dated 1820-12-18), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 331. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
Cate Centurian, aged 28, was manumitted by Henry Dye of West Windsor, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Since Henry Dye happened to be the Overseer of the Poor of West Windsor, he signed the manumission certificate in his official capacity as the Overseer, and the certificate was also signed by two Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Andrew Rowan and William Tindall) on December 18, 1820. The document stated that Cate Centurian 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.

The deed of manumission was executed on December 18, 1820, by Henry Dye (in his capacity as Cate Centurian's enslaver and manumitter).

These documents were recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on December 21, 1820.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
December 18, 1820
Location of Event
West Windsor
Primary Participants

Cate Centurian (b. 1792)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01437
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 28
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Henry Dye
Verbatim description from source:
"female slave named Cate Centurian aged about twenty eight years, five feet three and a half inches high, darkish complexion"
Additional Participants

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

William Tindall Jr. (1784-1877)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01354
Role: Judge

Henry Dye
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00104
Role: Overseer of the Poor

William D. Jewell
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01808
Role: Witness

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

Henry Dye
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00104
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event