Misfiled marriage certificate found among Somerset County Birth Certificates, Part I, Series 1, Item 3
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02148
- Source Type
- Civil Document
- Description
- This document was found among birth certificates of Black children at the Somerset County Clerk's Office. However, it is not a birth certificate. This small slip of paper notes a marriage that took place on April 7th, 1805. There is no indication on the document that the people married were Black people. This document appears to have been misfiled by the clerk.
- Language
- English
- Format
- slip of unlined paper with handwriting
- Sequence Number
- 1-003
- Archive
- Somerset County Clerk's Office
- Archival Collection
- Certificates of Births of Black Children and Slaves, 1805-1817
- Archival Location
- Series 1 (1805-1808)
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
