Certificate of Abandonment for Sarah, by Mary Boice
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01092
- Source Type
- Civil Document
- Author
- Mary Boice
- Location Created
- Piscataway
- Date
- June 6, 1806
- Transcript
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To the Town Clerk & overseer of the poor of the township of Piscataway
Gentlemen these are to inform you that my Negro wench Jude was brought to bed the sixteenth day of November last with a female child which she named Sarah—I do therefore hereby give you notice that I do abandon all my right & title to the said female child agreeably to an Act of the Legislature in such case made & provided – Given under my hand the 6th day of June 1806.
Mary Boice
her mark - Language
- English
- Format
- 1 loose sheet of paper with handwriting
- Archival Collection
- Piscataway Township Records, 1682–1954 (MC 1359)
- Archival Location
- Folder: Certificates of abandonment for negro children born of slave parents, 1805-1807, Ac. 1635 (physical location: BL drawer on-site at Alexander Library)
- Keywords
- abandonment
- Record Contributor
- Daniel Dias
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