Peter Voorhees
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This white person has 8 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-03481
- Given Name
- Peter
- Family Name
- Voorhees
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
- Peter Voorhees was an enslaver who resided in Montgomery, Somerset County, in the early 19th century. Beginning in 1811, he submitted multiple birth certificates recording the children of Jude, a woman who was enslaved in his household. In 1828, he manumitted a man named Cuffy who was nearly 40 years old. Peter Voorhees served as an Overseer of the Poor for the Township of Montgomery in the 1820s and served as a Justice of the Peace in the 1830s.
- Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- government official
- Places
- Montgomery
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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Additional Participant in:
- 1811-03-09 Birth: Bet (Role: Enslaver)
- 1813-11-22 Birth: Dine (Role: Enslaver)
- 1816-04-25 Birth: Kate (Role: Enslaver)
- 1818-07-25 Birth: Alfred (Role: Enslaver)
- 1820-08-26 Manumission: Tom (Role: Overseer of the Poor)
- 1823-12-13 Manumission: Thomas Jewell (Role: Overseer of the Poor)
- 1827-01-19 Birth: Caroline (Role: Enslaver)
- 1833-12-10 Manumission: Flora Stryker (Role: Judge)
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