Birth record for Martha, daughter of Susan, reported by slaveholder Michael Garrish
Title
Birth record for Martha, daughter of Susan, reported by slaveholder Michael Garrish
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Michael Garrish reports that Susan, an enslaved woman, gave birth to daughter Martha on December 27, 1805.
Date
1806-02-04
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1805-12-27
Language
English
Text (Transcript)
Martha
I Michael Garrish of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, shopkeeper, certify that Martha a female negro child was born of my slave Susan at the place aforesaid, on the twenty seventh day of December, Eighteen hundred & five. -
Witness my hand this fourth day of February, Eighteen hundred & six. -
Michael Garrish
Recorded February 4th 1806
I Michael Garrish of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, shopkeeper, certify that Martha a female negro child was born of my slave Susan at the place aforesaid, on the twenty seventh day of December, Eighteen hundred & five. -
Witness my hand this fourth day of February, Eighteen hundred & six. -
Michael Garrish
Recorded February 4th 1806
Page
16
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 Martha, daughter of Susan, reported by slaveholder Michael Garrish,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 28, 2023, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/85.