1822-03-17 Birth: Toby
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01757
- Source
- Transcriptions of Early County Records of New Jersey: Gloucester County Series Slave Documents
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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
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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.
Note that Waterford was in Gloucester County at the time, and it is now part of Camden County.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY DOCUMENT NUMBER: 7
TRANSCRIPT:
State of New Jersey
Gloucester County ss
I William Tod of the township of Waterford, in the County and state aforesaid, do hereby Certify that on the Seventeenth day of March A D eighteen hundred and Twenty Two, a Male Child aged at this time about one week Named Toby Was born of the body of Biddy a Coloured Woman and Slave of the Subscriber's -
Which Certificate is produced to the Clerk of the said County, to
be recorded this twenty third day of March A B 1822.
William Tod
[Verso]
Certificate of Male child
named "Toby" Slave of Wm Tod
filed March 22d 1822
J J Foster Clk Recorded in Book A of Manumissions folio 17.
J J Foster Clk - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- March 17, 1822
- Location of Event
- Waterford
- Primary Participants
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Toby (b. 1822) {son of Biddy}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04468
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Tod
Verbatim description from source:
"a Male Child aged at this time about one week Named Toby"Biddy
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04465
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Tod
Verbatim description from source:
"the body of Biddy a Coloured Woman and Slave of the Subscriber's" - Additional Participants
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William Tod
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04466
Role: EnslaverJeremiah Foster
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04441
Role: County Clerk - Record Contributor
- Kemy Rodriguez
- Resource class
- Event