Whereas Stephen Booth of the Town of Reading County of
Fairfield & State of Connecticut has made application to us John
Forbus & Robert Noxon overseers of the poor of the Town of Pough-
keepsie in the county of Dutchess and state of New York in order to
obtain a certificate immediately before the manumission of his slave
Gin Booth a woman of colour, said to be forty three years of age
or thereabouts agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the state of
New York entitled an act concern slaves and servants passed the eighth
day of April 1801 We the said overseers having examined the before
named Gin Booth do on mature deliberation hereby certify that
she appears to be under the age of fifty years and of sufficient ability
to provide for herself Given under our hands at Poughkeepsie the 18th
day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred & sixteen
John Forbus
Robert Noxon} overseers of the Poor
Present witness
John Baker
Know all men by these presents that I Stephen Booth of the Town
of Reading County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify
and make known that I have this day set free and manumitted my
slave Gin Booth a woman of colour said to be about forty three
years old or thereabouts agreeable to an act of the Legislature of
the State of New York entitled an act concerning slaves and servants
passed the the eighth day of April 1801 and do hereby for myself and
my legal Representatives and every of them absolutely fully & freely
renounce all right of property that I heretofore had in the said Gin
Booth and do forever acquit release and discharge her from all and
every kind of servitude or dependance as a slave to me or any other
person who may hereafter claim under me In witness where of I have here
unto set my hand and seal at Poughkeepsie the 18th day of January
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen
Stephen Booth
Signed sealed in Presence of
John Baker
Recorded Feb.y 6th 1816 Daniel Hebard Town Clerk
Set At Liberty 