1812-09-14 Birth: Clara Harris

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00003
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 50

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 50. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
Event Description
Clara Harris was born on September 14, 1812, in New Brunswick, the daughter of Ambo and Mark Harris Sr. Ambo's enslaver John Neilson reported Clara's birth to the Middlesex County Clerk.

The following is a transcript of Clara's birth record in the County Clerk's register:

"I John Neilson of the city in in of New Brunswick in the township of North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex State of New Jersey, certify that a female negro child called Clara was born of my slave Ambo at the place aforesaid on the 14 day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred twelve. - Witness my hand at New Brunswick aforesd.
John Neilson. -
Recd. December 19, 1812 recorded. -"
Event Type
Birth
Date
September 14, 1812
Location of Event
New Brunswick
Primary Participants

Clara Harris (b. 1812)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00010
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Neilson (1745-1833)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro child"

Ambo Harris
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00015
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Neilson (1745-1833)

Mark Harris Sr. (b. 1791)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00014
Role: Parent
Age: 21
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Benjamin Taylor Jr.
Additional Participants

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

John Neilson (1745-1833)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00001
Role: Enslaver

Benjamin Taylor Jr.
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00017
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event