Manumission certificate for Mars Willson, by David Ford for the Estate of Isabella Kearny
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00680
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- John Dehart
- Enoch Clarke
- Abraham Kitchell
- Abraham Fairchild
- Location Created
- Hanover
- Date
- April 28, 1806
- Transcript
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris
We do hereby Certify that on the twenty eighth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and Six, David Ford Esquire, Executor of the Estate of Isabella Kearny, late of the Irish Lot, in said County, deceased, brought before us two of the Overseers of the Poor of the Township of Hanover in the said County, and two of the Justices of the Peace of the said County, a Negro Man, named Mars Willson, late the property of the said Isabella Kearny, who, on view and examination, appears to us to be sound in mind, and not under any bodily Incapacity of obtaining a Support; and also, is not under the age of twenty one years, nor above the age of forty years. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands the day and year above written.
John Dehart
Enoch Clarke
Overseers of the Poor of the Township of Hanover
Abraham Kitchell
Abraham Fairchild
Justices of the Peace for the County of Morris - Language
- English
- Format
- loose sheet of unlined paper with handwriting
- Archival Collection
- Morristown Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Private Collection)
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Manumission deed for Mars Willson, by David Ford for the Estate of Isabella Kearny
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- Record Contributor
- Susan Bailey
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