1819-07-12 Manumission: Anthony

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00650
Source
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 306
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 307
Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 305

Manumission of Anthony (certificate dated 1819-07-12, deed dated 1819-07-12), recorded in Manumissions and Removals Book, p. 305-307. Middlesex County (N.J.) Records, 1688-1929, Vol. XI (MC 784.1). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Event Description
Anthony (also called Tony or Toney), aged 30, was manumitted by Sarah Voorhees of the City of New Brunswick in North Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The certificate of manumission was signed by the Overseer of the Poor of North Brunswick (Abraham Van Arsdalen) and Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County (Thomas Hance and John Outcalt) on July 12, 1819. The document stated that Anthony 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 July 12, 1819, by Sarah Voorhees. These documents were recorded by the Middlesex County Clerk (William P. Deare) on August 4, 1819.
Event Type
Manumission
Date
July 12, 1819
Location of Event
New Brunswick
Primary Participants

Anthony (b. 1789)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01420
Role: Manumitted Person
Age: 30
Status: Transition
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Sarah Voorhees
Verbatim description from source:
"slave named Anthony, otherwise called Toney; coloured slave named Anthony, otherwise called Tony aged about thirty years "
Additional Participants

Thomas Hance
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00227
Role: Judge

John Outcalt (1770-1853)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00035
Role: Judge

Abraham Van Arsdalen (d. ca. 1825)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00276
Role: Overseer of the Poor

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

Sarah Voorhees
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00317
Role: Enslaver, Manumitter
Record Contributor
Isaac Guzmán
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event