1819-03-11 Birth: Dianna Johnson · New Jersey Slavery Records

Identifier

NJS-EVE-01752

Source

Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration. Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. Newark: Historical Records Survey, 1940.

Event Description

The following birth record from Gloucester County was transcribed by the Historical Records Survey Project of the Works Progress Administration. The transcript was originally published in 1940 in the book titled Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents. The transcript is reproduced below as it appeared in that book.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY DOCUMENT NUMBER: 3

TRANSCRIPT:

State of New Jersey
Gloucester County Ss
To the Clerk of the County of Gloucester-
I James Matlack of Woodbury in the Township of Deptford,
County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey -
Do by these presents Certify That on thursday the 11th day of March, in the year of our LORD one Thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Was Born of the Body of Sill Johnson (a Black woman) and slave to the subscriber, "a black Female Child, named Dianna Johnson aged at this time Four 'weeks and four Days"
In testimony Whereof I have Set my hand this 12th day of april A. D. eighteen hundred and nineteen - 1819.
James Matlack
[Verso]
Certificate of the Birth of a Female black
child Born Mar, 11th, 1819.
filed 12th April 1819. Hendry Clk.
recorded same day - 12 April 1819,
Hendry Clk

Event Type

Birth

Date

March 11, 1819

Location of Event

Woodbury

Deptford

Primary Participants

Dianna Johnson (b. 1819)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04458
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Matlack
Verbatim description from source:
"a black Female Child, named Dianna Johnson aged at this time Four 'weeks and four Days"

Sill Johnson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04459
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Matlack
Verbatim description from source:
"Sill Johnson (a Black woman) and slave to the subscriber"

Additional Participants

James Matlack
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04448
Role: Enslaver

Thomas Hendry
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04440
Role: County Clerk

Record Contributor

Kemy Rodriguez