—"GOD has created men of all nations, of all languages, of ALL COLOURS, EQUALLY FREE... "SLAVERY, in all its forms, in all its degrees, is a violation of the divine laws, and a degradation of human nature."
BURLINGTON, PRINTED FOR "THE NEW-JERSEY SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY," BY ISAAC NEALE,—M,DCC,XCIV.
This is an exact photo-reproduction of an original copy of:
THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY RELATIVE TO THE MANUMISSION OF NEGROES AND OTHERS UNLAWFULLY HOLDEN IN BONDAGE - CASES OF YEARS 1775-1793 INCLUSIVE.
Special acknowledgement is made to The Philadelphia Bar Association Library, and James C. Baxter, Librarian, for the kind permission to use the original book in this reproduction.
As a copy of the original is practically unobtainable this reprint Is offered to enable law libraries to fill out their collection of New Jersey books. The reprint has a very limited printing and the original has been followed in every detail.
Dennis & Co.
Buffalo, New York
November 1, 1940
This is registered copy No. 56
At a general meeting of the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, September 2, 1793.
RESOLVED, that the President of this Society collect and have printed, the Decisionws of the Supreme Court in this State, relative to the Manumission of Negroes and others unlawfully holden in bondage.
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES,
ROBERT SMITH, Jr.
Secretary
ON the Application of Jofeph Bloomfield, Esquire, President of the New Jersey Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, I have carefully examined the following Cases with the original Entries thereof, in the Minutes of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; and I do hereby certify, that the same are truly taken from the said Minutes,
GERSHEM CRAct, for the Clerk of the Supreme Court,
November 20, 1793
JUSTICES of the SUPREME COURT and ATTORNEY GENERALS SINCE 1774
1774 to May Term 1776 Inclusive:
1776, September 4:
1777, February
1779, June 10
1783, June 13
1788, Sptember 4
1789, November 20
1792, May 23