 | Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 628 pages
...runaway slaves. Many high-minded persons wished to see it abolished. As early as 1785 " The Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated " was formed, with John Jay its president. A school was about the same time established for negro children.... | |
 | Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1897 - 666 pages
...the confederation. Early in 1785, a society was founded in New York under the name of ' The Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated.' Of this society Mr. Jay was elected president, and notwithstanding the pressure of his public business... | |
 | New York (State) - 1898 - 408 pages
...chapter 19 of the laws of 1808, as follows; An Act to incorporate the Society formed in this State of New York for promoting the Manumission of Slaves,...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated. [Passed Feb. 19, 1808.] Whereas a voluntary association has for many years past existed in this state,... | |
 | New York. State Library (Albany) - 1898 - 396 pages
...chapter 19 of the laws of 1808, as follows: An Act to incorporate the Society formed in this State of New York for promoting the Manumission of Slaves,...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated. [Passed Feb. 19, 1808.] Whereas a voluntary association has for many years past existed in this state,... | |
 | 1898 - 578 pages
...philanthropic undertakings. Before the outbreak of the civil war he was an ardent member of the "Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated, " in connection with which he was "instrumental in procuring the liberty of a number of persons. With... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 434 pages
...the African had rights which the white man was bound to respect. In 1785 began in New York a "Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated," with John Jay as President, who, like Franklin, bore his testimony in this 1 Newport Church Records,... | |
 | 1906 - 436 pages
...all my household furniture, 'which said legacies are in lieu of her right of dower; to the treasurer of the Society in New York " for promoting the manumission...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated," £100 for the use of the school of said society; my executors to sell all my real estate whatsoever;... | |
 | 1906 - 436 pages
...all my household furniture, which said legacies are in lieu of her right of dower; to the treasurer of the Society in New York " for promoting the manumission...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated," £100 for the use of the school of said society ; my executors to sell all my real estate whatsoever... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1906 - 436 pages
...all my household furniture, which said legacies are in lieu of her right of dower; to the treasurer of the Society in New York " for promoting the manumission...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated," £100 for the use of the school of said society ; my executors to sell all my real estate whatsoever... | |
 | New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County) - 1906 - 438 pages
...all my household furniture, which said legacies are in lieu of her right of dower; to the treasurer of the Society in New York " for promoting the manumission...protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated," £100 for the use of the school of said society; my executors to sell all my real estate whatsoever;... | |
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Society, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated... 
