1814-07 Sale: Han, Jane

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01745
Source
Somerset County Register of Black Children and Manumissions, Book B, Page 267

Somerset County Register of Black Children and Manumissions, Book B, Page 267. Archival location: Somerset County Clerk's Office. Manumission and Register of Blacks, Book B.
Event Description
In July 1814, Peter Voorhees sold Han and her infant daughter Jane to Jacob Drake. Jane was about two months old at this time. This sale took place in Somerset County, but the locality is uncertain. Information about the sale comes from a delayed birth registration that Peter Voorhees filed with the Somerset County Clerk's Office some twenty-one years later in 1835. In that registration document, Peter Voorhees certified that Jane was born on 7 May 1814 and that he sold Jane and her mother to Jacob Drake.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

“Hans child Jane was born in my kitchen May 7th 1814 and sold her and her mother to Jacob Drake in July the same year
Peter Voorhees”
Event Type
Sale
Date
July 1814
Location of Event
Somerset County
Primary Participants

Han
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04218
Role: Sold Person
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Peter Voorhees
- Jacob Drake
Verbatim description from source:
"Han / mother"

Jane (b. 1814)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04217
Role: Sold Person
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Peter Voorhees
- Jacob Drake
Verbatim description from source:
"child Jane"
Additional Participants

Peter Voorhees
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04211
Role: Enslaver, Seller

Jacob Drake
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03177
Role: Enslaver, Buyer

John M. Mann
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03401
Role: County Clerk
Comment: recorded document in 1835
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event