Gad [Gadd] Cooper - GAD1
Title
Gad [Gadd] Cooper - GAD1
Name
Gad [Gadd] Cooper
Unique Person Identifier
GAD1
Ancestry
African
Status
Freed
Status II
Free
Sex
Male
Event Type
Manumission
Event Date
April 22, 1811
Event Type II
Legal Proceeding
Event Date II
April 25, 1814
Event Type III
Employment
Event Date III
January 14, 1826
Age
Gad was 46 years old when his manumission was ratified by Judge Abraham Miller.
Location or Address
Southampton, NY
Enslaver or Household
Nathan Cooper
Relationships
ESTH3 | Spouse
Notes
In 1811, Nathan Cooper manumitted Gad as well as his wife Esther. It is stipulated in their manumission that any male children that Esther has will be indentured to Cooper at the age of seven years old.
In 1814, Judge Abraham Miller describes Gad as "a black man forty-six years old, thick set and about five feet eight inches high" (17).
In 1826, a "Gadd Cooper" was recorded as receiving a payment of $3.25 as part of the "payments made to Laborers on the Sloop Fair American." This "Gadd" is, with a very high degree of certainty, the Gad that was manumitted by Nathan Cooper in 1811.
In 1814, Judge Abraham Miller describes Gad as "a black man forty-six years old, thick set and about five feet eight inches high" (17).
In 1826, a "Gadd Cooper" was recorded as receiving a payment of $3.25 as part of the "payments made to Laborers on the Sloop Fair American." This "Gadd" is, with a very high degree of certainty, the Gad that was manumitted by Nathan Cooper in 1811.
Source Type
Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
Source Type II
Legislation or Decree
Source Type III
Civil Document
Source/s
Records of the Town of Southampton Volume IV. Page 6.
Records of the Town of Southampton Volume IV. Page 17.
John Jermain Memorial Library, Archival Collections: Box M/155, Folder 12.
Records of the Town of Southampton Volume IV. Page 17.
John Jermain Memorial Library, Archival Collections: Box M/155, Folder 12.
Researcher
Daria Reaven and Jackie Dinan
Collection
Citation
“Gad [Gadd] Cooper - GAD1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed April 27, 2024, http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1979.