The Register of Slaves (1799-1825) was kept by the Town Clerk of New Paltz as a requirement of the New York State Manumission Act of 1799. In keeping the slave register, the town clerk recorded the births of children born to slaves owned by the...
Record of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, November 4, 1740. Susanna Bond asked the court for permission to free her slave named Christian Bran. The court approved this manumission since Susanna supplied a security for this newly freed...