Birth record for Joseph, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker
Title
Birth record for Joseph, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker
Creator
Description
Slaveholder James Parker reports that an enslaved woman named Nanny gave birth to son Joseph on January 16, 1808.
Date
1808-08-20
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1808-01-16
Language
English
Relation
Text (Transcript)
Joseph
I, James Parker, of the township of Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that a Male Negro Child named Joseph was born of a Negro Woman named Nanny (a slave belonging to me) on the Sixteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Witness my hand this eighteenth day of August, 1808.
James Parker
Received August 20th 1808 & recorded
Deare, Clk
I, James Parker, of the township of Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that a Male Negro Child named Joseph was born of a Negro Woman named Nanny (a slave belonging to me) on the Sixteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Witness my hand this eighteenth day of August, 1808.
James Parker
Received August 20th 1808 & recorded
Deare, Clk
Page
31
Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Archival collection
Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1)
Archival location
Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Middlesex County Register of Black Children (Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844) |
| Item: Birth record for James, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker | is related to | This Item |
Collection
Citation
Middlesex County Clerk, “Birth record for Joseph, son of Nanny, reported by slaveholder James Parker,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed April 18, 2024, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/56.