Overseers of the Poor of Maidenhead seek to bind out 6 abandoned Black children, by Joseph Scudder and Enoch Johnston

Overseers of the Poor of Maidenhead seek to bind out 6 abandoned Black children, by Joseph Scudder and Enoch Johnston
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Identifier
NJS-SRC-01112
Source Type
Auction or Sale Notice
Headline
The subscribers Overseers
Author
Joseph Scudder
Enoch Johnston
Publication
Trenton Federalist
Place of Publication
Trenton
Date of Issue
July 10, 1809
Date Submitted
June 19, 1809
Page
4
Description
A notice from the Overseers of the Poor of the township of Maidenhead, Hunterdon County, seeking to bind out six Black children who were abandoned to the Overseers as paupers per the provisions of New Jersey's gradual abolition law.
Transcript
THE subscribers Overseers of
the poor in the township of Maidenhead, in the county of Hunterdon, doth hereby certify the following to be a true list of the abandoned black children, born since the 4th day of July 1804, in said township. Any person wishing to take any of said children upon the terms prescribed in the act of the Legislature of this state, for that purpose made and provided, will please to apply to the subscribers.

1 male child aged 4 years and 6 months,
1 do. do. 4 do. 1 do.
1 do. do. 3 do. 11 do.
1 do. do. 3 do. 8 do.
1 do. do. 3 do. 10 do.
1 female child aged 4 do. 9 do.

JOSEPH SCUDDER, }
ENOCH JOHNSTON, } Overseers of the poor.
June 19, 1809. 38-4w
Language
English
Keywords
abandonment
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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