1818-02-15 Birth: Peter
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00442
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 64
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 64. 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: 64
Child: Peter
Mother: Sarah
Enslaver of mother and child: Dinah Voorhees
Location: North Brunswick, NJ
Birth date: February 15, 1818
Reported date: April 22, 1819
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"64
Peter }
I Dinah Voorhees of the Township of North Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey certify that a black child named Peter was born of Sarah in my house on the fifteenth day of February 1818 — Witness my hand this twenty second day of April 1819. —
Dinah Voorhees
Received April 22d, 1819 recorded
Deare clk" - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- February 15, 1818
- Location of Event
- North Brunswick
- Primary Participants
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Peter (b. 1818) {son of Sarah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00873
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Dinah Voorhees
Verbatim description from source:
"black child"Sarah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01042
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Dinah Voorhees - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkDinah Voorhees
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01266
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker