Birth record for Charles, son of Charlotte, reported by slaveholder Ann Parker

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Title

Birth record for Charles, son of Charlotte, reported by slaveholder Ann Parker

Description

Slaveholder Ann Parker reports that an enslaved woman named Charlotte gave birth to son Charles on March 7, 1810.

Date

1814-06-18

Temporal Coverage

1810-03-07

Language

English

Text (Transcript)

Charles.


I Ann Parker of the city of New Brunswick in New Jersey, widow, do hereby certify that a male negro child, called Charles was born of my slave Charlotte on the 7th day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ten at the township of North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex & State aforesaid.- Witness my hand this 18th day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred fourteen.- Ann Parker


Received June 18th. 1814 Recorded

Page

53

Repository

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries

Archival collection

Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1)

Archival location

Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844

Citation

Middlesex County Clerk, “Birth record for Charles, son of Charlotte, reported by slaveholder Ann Parker,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed April 20, 2024, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/96.