1826, Harry, Birth

Title

1826, Harry, Birth

Description

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 79
Child: Harry
Mother: Hannah
Enslaver of mother and child at the time of birth: Abraham Dumont
Location: North Branch, Somerset County, NJ
Birth date: February 20, 1826
Clerk: Elias J. Thompson
Reported to the Middlesex County Clerk on February 5, 1829, by the new enslaver of the mother and child, Robert Boggs of New Brunswick, NJ, who bought Hannah and Harry from Abraham Dumont shortly before this date. Boggs noted that the original enslaver neglected to notify the Somerset County Clerk of Harry's birth in 1826.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Harry

I, Robert Boggs, of the city of New Brunswick in the township of North Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, Attorney at Law, do hereby certify, to the Clerk of the County of Middlesex, that I have in my possession a negro male child called Harry, who with his mother called Hannah, a slave I lately purchased of Abraham Dumont of North Branch in the County of Somerset, that the said Abraham Dumont has informed me that he had never certified the age of the said negro boy - Harry - to the Clerk of the County of Somerset - but that the said negro boy Harry would be three years old on the twentieth day of February eighteen hundred and twenty nine, which is the only knowledge I have of his age. Witness my hand this fifth day of February eighteen hundred and twenty nine.

Robt Boggs

Recd Febry 6th and recorded by Thompson Clerk"

Identifier

NJS-EVE-00460

Event Type

Life event: Birth

Action Status

Completed

Date

February 20, 1826

Source

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 79. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Primary Participant

Harry (b. 1826)

Primary Participant Description

negro male child

Freedom Status

Enslaved

Enslaver

Abraham Dumont

Age

Infant

Additional Participant

Robert Boggs (1766-1831)

Parent

Hannah

Source Resource

https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/3021

Source Site

https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home

Sex

Male

Contributor

Lindsey Dixon

Jesse Bayker