The Passaic County Historical
Society
Lambert Castle, Paterson, NJ
Passaic County
Manumission Records
Reprinted from the The Historic County -
Volume
3 Issue 3
Manumission Record of Samuel Tiebout
In October 1974, the Society acquired four Passaic County
Manumission
Records through the efforts of Edward A. Smyk. The fragile
condition
of the paper on which these documents are recorded, combined with faded
ink, and 19th century penmanship make them difficult to decipher.
Following is a transcript of the above manumission record for Samuel
Tiebout:
State of New Jersey
Passaic County ss
To all whom these present may come Greeting
It is hereby made known, that on this sixteenth
day of
July in the Year of Our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty
eight,
I John S. Hart of the Township of Paterson, in said County of Passaic
have
liberated, manumitted and set free my negro slave called Samuel Tiebout
of the age of twenty four years and five months or thereabouts; and I
do
here by liberate and manumit and set free my said negro slave and
discharge
him from all services or demand of service to be hereafter made either
by me or any other person by, from, or under me. In testimony
whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.
Signed sealed and
delivered in the presence of
John S.
Hart
Jm Crismond
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Other manumissions on file:
William Sanford manumitted Jack
Oliver,
age 28, on August 6, 1838.
Philip Van Bussum manumitted Phillis,
age 25, on August 16, 1838.
David G. Demarest manumitted Sam
Coon
on May 9, 1840.
Full transcripts of the four records are available at the
Passaic
County Historical Society Library.
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