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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey"

A Negro Man For Sale

1810-05-31
Taylor, Hariot

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Hariot Taylor of Perth Amboy seeks to sell a 30-year-old black man belonging to the estate of Joseph Taylor. Buyers can also apply to John Heard of New Brunswick for information.

Birth record for James, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker

1811-05-10
Middlesex County Clerk

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Slaveholder James Parker reports that Nanny, an enslaved woman, gave birth to son James on November 4, 1810.

Birth record for Joseph, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker

1808-08-20
Middlesex County Clerk

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Slaveholder James Parker reports that an enslaved woman named Nanny gave birth to son Joseph on January 16, 1808.

Birth record for Phebe-Gertruda, daughter of Nancy, reported by Gertrude Parker for the estate of James Parker Sr.

1805-10-05
Middlesex County Clerk

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Gertrude Parker, Executrix for the estate of James Parker, reports that an enslaved woman named Nancy gave birth to daughter Phebe-Gertruda on April 27th, 1805.

Letter to Col. Henry Van Dike concerning a donation of land for Queen's College from the estate of James Parker Sr.

1807-10-16
Parker, James

James Parker letter to Henry Van Dike.pdf
On October 16, 1807, James Parker Jr. (1776-1868) writes to Col. Henry Van Dike to confirm Parker's intention to transfer a plot of land in New Brunswick to the Queen's College Board of Trustees. Parker describes the five-acre plot of land in detail.…

Manumission of John Annin (alias Jack) by slaveholder James Parker

1822-08-08
Middlesex County Clerk

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Slaveholder James Parker of Perth Amboy manumitted 25-year-old man John Annin (known as Jack) on August 8, 1822. In his Deed of Manumission, James Parker stated that he had purchased John Annin in 1807 from his former owner Joseph Annin of Somerset…

Notice [pickup notice for Tom and Frank]

1825-10-26
Bonnington, Joseph

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Two black men, Tom and Frank, were captured as suspected runaways on October 10, 1825, and confined to the Perth Amboy jail.