Birth record for Quash, son of Teen, reported by slaveholder Reuliff Voorhees
Title
Birth record for Quash, son of Teen, reported by slaveholder Reuliff Voorhees
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Reuliff Voorhees, reports that Teen, an enslaved woman, gave birth to son Quash.
Date
1808-10-11
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1808-02-25
Language
English
Text (Transcript)
Quash
I Reuliff Voorhees, of the township of North Brunswick, in the County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey, Farmer, certify that Quash, a male negro child was born of my slave Teen, at the place aforesaid, on the 25th day of February last past.
-- Witness my hand this eleventh day of October eighteen hundred and eight.
Reuliff Voorhees
Received October 11th 1808 & recorded
Deare, Clk.
I Reuliff Voorhees, of the township of North Brunswick, in the County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey, Farmer, certify that Quash, a male negro child was born of my slave Teen, at the place aforesaid, on the 25th day of February last past.
-- Witness my hand this eleventh day of October eighteen hundred and eight.
Reuliff Voorhees
Received October 11th 1808 & recorded
Deare, Clk.
Page
31
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 Quash, son of Teen, reported by slaveholder Reuliff Voorhees,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed April 20, 2024, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/55.