Birth record for Phebe-Gertruda, daughter of Nancy, reported by Gertrude Parker for the estate of James Parker Sr.
Title
Birth record for Phebe-Gertruda, daughter of Nancy, reported by Gertrude Parker for the estate of James Parker Sr.
Creator
Description
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.
Date
1805-10-05
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1805-04-27
Relation
New Jersey Slavery Records database: 1805, Phebe-Gertruda, Birth
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Phebe-Gertruda (b. 1805)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Nancy [or Nanny] (mother of Phebe-Gertruda)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Gertrude Skinner Parker (1739-1811)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: James Parker Sr. (1725-1797)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 8
New Jersey Slavery Records database: James (b. 1810) (sibling of Phebe-Gertruda)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Joseph (b. 1808) (sibling of Phebe-Gertruda)
Text (Transcript)
Phebe-Gertruda.
I do hereby certify that a female child called Phebe-Gertruda was born of a black woman called Nancy belonging to the estate of James Parker dec’d. On Saturday the twenty seventh day of April last. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and five.--
Gertrude Parker
Executrix of James Parker dec’d.
Recorded Oct. 5th 1805.
I do hereby certify that a female child called Phebe-Gertruda was born of a black woman called Nancy belonging to the estate of James Parker dec’d. On Saturday the twenty seventh day of April last. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and five.--
Gertrude Parker
Executrix of James Parker dec’d.
Recorded Oct. 5th 1805.
Page
8
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 Phebe-Gertruda, daughter of Nancy, reported by Gertrude Parker for the estate of James Parker Sr.,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed December 5, 2023, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/83.