Birth record for Peter, son of Hannah, reported by slaveholder Abraham Blauvelt
Title
Birth record for Peter, son of Hannah, reported by slaveholder Abraham Blauvelt
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Abraham Blauvelt (Queen's College alum 1789 and long-time trustee) reports that Hannah, an enslaved woman, gave birth to son Peter on January 29, 1812.
Date
1813-03-01
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1812-01-29
Language
English
Text (Transcript)
Peter.
I, Abraham Blauvelt, of the township of North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex New Jersey Printer certify that a male negro child called Peter was born of my slave Hannah at the township aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of January eighteen hundred and twelve. - Witness my hand this first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen.
-- Abm Blauvelt
Received March 1st, 1813 Recorded -
I, Abraham Blauvelt, of the township of North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex New Jersey Printer certify that a male negro child called Peter was born of my slave Hannah at the township aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of January eighteen hundred and twelve. - Witness my hand this first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen.
-- Abm Blauvelt
Received March 1st, 1813 Recorded -
Page
51
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
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Middlesex County Register of Black Children (Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844) |
Collection
Citation
Middlesex County Clerk, “Birth record for Peter, son of Hannah, reported by slaveholder Abraham Blauvelt,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 24, 2023, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/53.