1805-12-27 Birth: Martha
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01009
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 16
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 16. 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: 16
Child: Martha
Mother: Susan
Enslaver of mother and child: Michael Garrish
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Birth date: December 27, 1805
Reported date: February 4, 1806
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Martha
I Michael Garrish of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, shopkeeper, certify that Martha a female negro child was born of my slave Susan at the place aforesaid, on the twenty seventh day of December, Eighteen hundred & five. -
Witness my hand this fourth day of February, Eighteen hundred & six. -
Michael Garrish
Recorded February 4th 1806" - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- December 27, 1805
- Location of Event
- Piscataway
- Following Event
- 1806-08-09 Abandonment: Martha
- Primary Participants
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Martha (b. 1805) {daughter of Susan}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02400
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Michael Garrish
Verbatim description from source:
"Martha a female negro child"Susan
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02399
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Michael Garrish
Verbatim description from source:
"my slave Susan" - Additional Participants
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Michael Garrish
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02401
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker