Removal of Phillis and her son Charles to Louisiana by slaveholder Nicholas Van Wickle
Title
Creator
Description
Judges Jacob Van Wickle and John Outcalt signed the removal certificate on April 22, 1818, and Middlesex County Clerk William P. Deare recorded this document in the Book of Manumissions and Removals on June 15, 1818.
Date
Language
Date received by County Clerk
Text (Transcript)
255
Removal Phillis
& her child Charles
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
Be it remembered that on this twenty second day of April in this year of our Lord eighteen hundred eighteen Nicholas Van Wickle of the county of Middlesex in New Jersey brought before us Jacob Van Wickle and John Outcalt Esq. two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and the State aforesaid his female slave named Philis aged twenty five years with her male child named Charles aged one year six months, the said Phillis being by us examined separate and apart from her Master declared that she was willing and that she freely consented to remove and go out of this State to Point Coupee in the State of Louisiana together with her said male child and there to serve the Colonel Charles Morgan and Nicholas Van Wicle or either of them their heirs or assigns jointly or separately - In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands the day of the year just above written - the said child to serve unto he arrive to the age of twenty five years. -
Jb. Van Wickle }
Jno. Outcalt } Judges
Received June 15th 1818 & recorded by
Deare CLK
Page
Repository
Archival collection
Archival location
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Middlesex County Book of Manumissions and Removals (Manumission of Slaves, 1800-1825) |