Manumission of Bell and Lambert, by Governor William Livingston
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00649
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Location Created
- Elizabeth (formerly Elizabethtown)
- Date
- October 1787
- Transcript
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October [1 – 31] 1787
Know all Men by these presents that I William Livingston of the Borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex & State of New Jersey, in consideration of my regard for the natural liberties of mankind, & in order to set the example as far as my voluntary manumission of Slaves, may have any influence on others have manumitted emancipated and set at Liberty & Do by these presents manumit emancipate & set at Liberty a certain Negro woman slave called Bell and also her male child called Lambert both born in my family in a state of slavery & do hereby release acquit & discharge the said Bell and her child from any services to me or my representatives as fully & effectually to the extent & purposes whatsoever as if they had been born first free. It witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this [ ] day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven. - Language
- English
- Reproduced In
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Prince, Carl E., Mary Lou Lustig, and David William Voorhees, eds. The Papers of William Livingston. Vol. 5. New Brunswick: Published for the New Jersey Historical Commission by Rutgers University Press, 1979. See p. 302, "Bill of Manumission for His Slaves."
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- Jesse Bayker
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