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- GLC#
- GLC00340
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 13 April 1813
- Author/Creator
- Rhea, Jonathan, 1758-1815
- Title
- [Manumission of a mulatto slave named Benjamin Harkimon (or Harkinson)]
- Place Written
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Sends John B. Timberlake, bursar of the frigate United States commanded by Commodore Decatur, an official document freeing thirty-three-year-old Harkimon (or Harkinson), who was aboard the United States, with the stipulation that Harkimon pay $200. Notarized by James Linn, "one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey." Written on the same paper as a letter to Timberlake introducing the document. Contains a red wax seal.
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