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Box 7

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Manumissions [certificates], 1775 - 1798

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.19
Scope and Contents

Original certifiates, with seals, by Westbury Monthly Meeting members manumitting the people they enslaved.

Certificates include the full name of enslaver(s), the town of residence, the first name of the enslaved person, sometimes the person's gender and age, the date the enslaved person is to be manumitted if it is in the future, and sometimes the signatures of witnesses (in this file witnesses were generally also manumitting enslavers).

Dates: 1775 - 1798

Abstract to Manumissions [register], ca. 1994 (covering manumissions dated 1776-1790)

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.9
Scope and Contents

Abstract of a record register of manumissions for Westbury Monthly Meeting (book itself is 3.16). Notes include the name and location of the enslaver, the first name of the person manumitted, and the date of the certificate.

Dates: ca. 1994 (covering manumissions dated 1776-1790)

Notes on Manumissions recorded, circa 1939 (covering manumissions 1775-1798)

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.20
Scope and Contents

"A complete alphabetical list [by enslaver surname] of the manumision papers recorded in the book with the above title [A Record of the Discharges of the Negroes set at liberty by Friends of Westbury Monthly Meeting New York] which is in the Westbury Monthly Meeting safe."

Dates: circa 1939 (covering manumissions 1775-1798)

Index to manumissions witnesses, circa 1940s?

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.21
Scope and Contents

Typed index cards, filed by witness name. Information includes co-witness(es) and enslaver(s) name only.

Dates: circa 1940s?

Chronological inventory of Westbury manumission certificates, circa 1980?

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.22
Scope and Contents

Index cards listing, by year, the enslaver and manumitted individuals for manumission certificate originals then stored at Westbury Monthly Meeting.

Dates: circa 1980?

Abstract and transcript of manumissions, circa 1980?

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: RG2/NY/W453 3.23
Scope and Contents

Index cards (both typed and handwritten) of a mix of abstracts and transcripts of manumission certificates held by Westbury Monthly Meeting. Arranged by enslaver surname.

Dates: circa 1980?