Manumissions of slaves. Book B, 1820-1853.

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Manumissions of slaves. Book B, 1820-1853.

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Manumission papers filed by Burlington County slave owners (with overseers of the poor and justices of the peace), resulting from legislation passed in 1786, 1798, 1804, and 1820.

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Burlington County (N.J.). Clerk's Office

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Original birth records for children of slaves, listed by name of slave owner, submitted to the county clerk's office, as the result of an act passed by N.J. state law (P.L. 1804, chap. CIV, p. 251) in 1804, which pronounced that every child born to a slave mother after 4 July 1804 was to be "free" at birth, but bound as a servant to the mother's owner until the age of twenty-five for males or twenty-one for females. Persons entitled by law to such bound service were required to file with the cou...