1805-04-27 Birth: Phebe-Gertruda
- Research Tips
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00499
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 8
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 8. 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: 8
Child: Phebe-Gertruda
Mother: Nancy
Enslaver of mother and child: Gertrude Parker, Executrix of the estate of James Parker Sr.
Location: Perth Amboy, NJ
Birth date: April 27, 1805
Reported date: September 27, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Phebe-Gertruda /
I do hereby certify that a female child called Phebe-Gertruda was born of a black woman called Nancy belonging to the estate of James Parker dec’d. On Saturday the twenty seventh day of April last. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and five.
Gertrude Parker
Executrix of James Parker decd
Recorded Oct. 5th 1805." - Event Type
- Birth
- Keywords
- Estate (deceased enslaver)
- Date
- April 27, 1805
- Location of Event
- Perth Amboy
- Primary Participants
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Phebe-Gertruda (b. 1805) {daughter of Nancy}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01331
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Gertrude Skinner Parker (1739-1811)
Verbatim description from source:
"female child"Nancy {or Nanny}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01330
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Gertrude Skinner Parker (1739-1811) - Additional Participants
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James Parker Sr. (1725-1797)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01328
Role: DeceasedWilliam Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkGertrude Skinner Parker (1739-1811)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01329
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker