Peter Voorhees
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This white person has 2 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-04211
- Given Name
- Peter
- Family Name
- Voorhees
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Peter Voorhees was an enslaver who lived in Somerset County in the early 19th century. His township of residence is not known. He held in bondage a woman named Han and her daughter Jane, who was born in 1814. He filed a document related to the birth of Jane with the Somerset County Clerk, but he did not write down his place of residence on the document.
Note that there were several other slavery records filed under the name Peter Voorhees in Somerset County in this period that omitted a township of residence. These were entered separately into the New Jersey Slavery Records database, but there is a possibility that they may be referring to the same Peter Voorhees. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Places
- Somerset County
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1814-05-07 Birth: Jane (Role: Enslaver)
- 1814-07 Sale: Han, Jane (Role: Enslaver, Seller)
- Resource class
- Agent