Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 365
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00369
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- Middlesex County Clerk
- Description
- Individual page from the bound volume Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals Book, 1800-1825.
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- set free the said John at the age of twenty five years the period fixed by law for those who were born since the fourth day of July 1804, and he having now or lately attained that age. Now know all men by these presents that I the said James Parker in execution of my said intention and in consideration of the faithful services rendered me by the said John Annin have manumitted and set free, and by these presents do manumit and set free him the said John Annin my said slave of and from all services due and from all claim and demand whatsoever which I may or can have upon him as a slave as aforesaid - so that the said John Annin shall hereafter be and considered a free man - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundrend and twenty two. —
James Parker
Signed sealed and delivered }
in the presence of }
James Skinner - Joseph Marsh }
State of New Jersey }
Middlesex County }
Be it remembered that on the eighth day of August 1822 before me James Skinner one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid personally appeared James Parker known to me as the grantor in the written deed of Manumission & to whom I made known the contents thereof - who did acknowledge that he signed sealed and delivered same as his act & deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. —
James Skinner
Recorded August 20, 1822 & recorded by
Deare CLK - Language
- English
- Page
- 365
- Archival Collection
- Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1)
- Archival Location
- Vol. XI
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