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From: "Jan Reuther" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] slavery abolished in what year in NJ?
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:40:35 -0400
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From The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey , Vol. 54, Nos. 2/3, May/Sept.
1979: "The New Jersey Assembly in 1804 passed an act to gradually abolish
slavery within the
state. The act provided that every child born of a slave after the fourth
of July of that year was to
be free, but should remain the servant of the owner of the mother, as if
bound out by the Overseer
of the Poor, until the age of twenty-five years, if a male, or twenty-one
years, if a female. All slave
births were to be recorded by the county clerk."

This is from an article listing slave births...I don't know when adult
slaves were freed.

Jan Reuther

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> Does anyone know what year slavery was abolished in NJ? Some of my
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> living in Hunterdon & Somerset Co. had slaves in the early 1800s.
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