1793-05-10 Birth: Clara Voorhees, Flora Stryker (twins)

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01078
Source
Obituary of Clara Voorhees in the Princeton Press

Obituary of Clara Voorhees, Princeton Press, January 26, 1892.
Event Description
According to the obituary of Clara Voorhees (published in 1892), Clara had a family bible record that listed her birth date as May 10, 1793. She was a twin, and her twin sister was named Flora Stryker. It is presumed that Voorhees and Stryker were the women's married names, and these would not have been their names at birth. The name of their mother is not known. The two girls were enslaved by a man named Matthew Rue near Scott's Corner, a place in present-day Plainsboro, Middlesex County, New Jersey (but at the time this area would have been part of South Brunswick).
Event Type
Birth
Date
May 10, 1793
Location of Event
Scott's Corner, Plainsboro
Related Place
South Brunswick
Primary Participants

Clara Voorhees (1793-1892)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02520
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Matthew Rue

Flora Stryker (1793-1882)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02534
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Matthew Rue
Additional Participants

Matthew Rue
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02532
Role: Enslaver
Comment: enslaver of both twin girls
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event