Overseers of the Poor of Bedminster seek to bind out 8 abandoned Black children, by Abraham I. Van Arsdale and Abraham Brown · New Jersey Slavery Records

Overseers of the Poor of Bedminster seek to bind out 8 abandoned Black children, by Abraham I. Van Arsdale and Abraham Brown

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Identifier: NJS-SRC-01111
Source Type: Auction or Sale Notice
Headline: In conformity to a Supplement
Author: Abraham I. Van Arsdale; Abraham Brown
Publication: Trenton Federalist
Place of Publication: Trenton
Date of Issue: May 29, 1809
Date Submitted: May 24, 1809
Page: 3
Description: A notice from the Overseer of the Poor of the township of Bedminster, Somerset County, seeking to bind out eight Black children who were abandoned to the Overseer as paupers per the provisions of New Jersey's gradual abolition law.
Transcript: IN conformity to a supplement
of an act of the legislature of N. J. passed at Trenton on the 26th November 1808, for the gradual abolition of Slavery,
We the undersigners, overseers of the poor of the township of Bedminster in the county of Somerset, do certify the following a correct list of the abandoned black children born in said township, since the 4th day of July 1804. Persons wishing to take any of said children agreeably to law, can apply to the said overseers.

MALES
1 aged 4 years 7 months,
1 do. 4 do. 3 do.
FEMALES
1 aged 4 years 6 months,
2 do. 4 do. 4 do.
1 do. 4 do. 2 do.
1 do. 3 do. 4 do.
1 do. 2 do. 11 do.

ABM. I. VAN ARSDALE, }
ABM. BROWN, } Overseers of the poor.
May 24, 1809.

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Language: English
Mentions: Bedminster
Keywords: abandonment
Record Contributor: Jesse Bayker
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1809-05-24 Abandonment: 2 Black boys and 6 Black girls