Certification of Tony’s consent to be sold to John Neilson
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00470
- Source Type
- Civil Document
- Author
- Elijah Phillips
- Location Created
- New Brunswick
- Date
- April 24, 1798
- Transcript
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To whom these presents may concern, I
Elijah Phillips — one of the judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in & for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, Do certify that on the twenty fourth day of July in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & ninety eight personally appeared before me, a negro man called Tony, formerly belonging to the estate of the Revd Israel Read decd and did freely & voluntarily acknowledge and declare that he did agree & consent that he should be disposed of for & during the term of five years from & after the day of the date of this instrument of writing, to John Neilson of the city of New Brunswick, and that he was willing to be the property of the said John Neilson in conformity to this agreement of his own, in conjunction with the consent & agreement of Dcr Thos Reed one of the sons & heirs of the said Revd Israel Reed decd & Docr Moses Scott one of the executors of the said estate in behalf of Archd Reed the other son and heir of the said Revd Israel Reed decd.
Given under my hand at New Brunswick the 24 day of July 1798
Elijah Phillips
Done in the presence & by consent of
Thos Read
Moses Scott
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Negro man Tones consent
to be sold to John Neilson
for five years
24 July 1798
taken before Elijah
Phillips Esqr. one of the
Judges of Midx Co - - Language
- English
- Format
- Loose sheet of unlined paper with handwriting
- 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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