1807-03-06 Birth: Bob
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00390
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 30
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 30. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
- Event Description
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:
Page: 30
Child: Bob
Mother: Abb
Enslaver of mother and child: Matthias Vanderveer
Location: North Brunswick, NJ
Birth date: March 6, 1807
Reported date: June 6, 1808
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer.
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Bob /
I Matthias Van Der Veer of the township of North Brunswick in the County of Middlesex, and State of New Jersey, Farmer, certify that a male negro child called Bob, was born of my slave Abb, at the place aforesaid, on the twenty sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. Witness my hand, this Sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and eight.
Matthias Vanderveer
Received June 6th 1808 & recorded by
Deare Clk" - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- March 6, 1807
- Location of Event
- North Brunswick
- Primary Participants
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Bob (b. 1807) {son of Abb}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00832
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Matthias Vanderveer
Verbatim description from source:
"male negro child"Abb
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01002
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Matthias Vanderveer - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkMatthias Vanderveer
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01239
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker