Birth record for Peter, son of Sarah, reported by slaveholder Dinah Voorhees
Title
Birth record for Peter, son of Sarah, reported by slaveholder Dinah Voorhees
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Dinah Voorhees reports that Sarah, an enslaved woman, gave birth to son Peter on February 15, 1818.
Date
1819-04-22
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1818-02-15
Language
English
Text (Transcript)
64
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I Dinah Voorhees of the Township of North Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey certify that a black child named Peter was born of Sarah in my house on the fifteenth day of February 1818 — Witness my hand this twenty second day of April 1819. —
Dinah Voorhees
Received April 22d, 1819 recorded
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Peter }
I Dinah Voorhees of the Township of North Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey certify that a black child named Peter was born of Sarah in my house on the fifteenth day of February 1818 — Witness my hand this twenty second day of April 1819. —
Dinah Voorhees
Received April 22d, 1819 recorded
Deare clk
Page
64
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 Sarah, reported by slaveholder Dinah Voorhees,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 28, 2023, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/90.