1826-02-20 Birth: Harry

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00460
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 79

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 79. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
Event Description
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 79
Child: Harry
Mother: Hannah
Enslaver of mother and child at the time of birth: Abraham Dumont
Location: North Branch, Somerset County, NJ
Birth date: February 20, 1826
Clerk: Elias J. Thompson
Reported to the Middlesex County Clerk on February 5, 1829, by the new enslaver of the mother and child, Robert Boggs of New Brunswick, NJ, who bought Hannah and Harry from Abraham Dumont shortly before this date. Boggs noted that the original enslaver neglected to notify the Somerset County Clerk of Harry's birth in 1826.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Harry

I, Robert Boggs, of the city of New Brunswick in the township of North Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, Attorney at Law, do hereby certify, to the Clerk of the County of Middlesex, that I have in my possession a negro male child called Harry, who with his mother called Hannah, a slave I lately purchased of Abraham Dumont of North Branch in the County of Somerset, that the said Abraham Dumont has informed me that he had never certified the age of the said negro boy - Harry - to the Clerk of the County of Somerset - but that the said negro boy Harry would be three years old on the twentieth day of February eighteen hundred and twenty nine, which is the only knowledge I have of his age. Witness my hand this fifth day of February eighteen hundred and twenty nine.

Robt Boggs

Recd Febry 6th and recorded by Thompson Clerk"
Event Type
Birth
Date
February 20, 1826
Location of Event
North Branch
Primary Participants

Harry (b. 1826) {son of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00756
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Dumont
Verbatim description from source:
"negro male child"

Hannah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00757
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Dumont
Additional Participants

Robert Boggs (1766-1831)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00380
Role: Enslaver, Reporter or Certifier
Comment: new enslaver who reported Harry's birth years later

Abraham Dumont
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00755
Role: Enslaver, Former Enslaver Mentioned
Comment: original enslaver of Harry at the time of his birth

Elias J. Thompson
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00759
Role: County Clerk
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event