1805, Phebe-Gertruda, Birth
- Title
- 1805, Phebe-Gertruda, Birth
- Description
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:
Page: 8
Child: Phebe-Gertruda
Mother: Nancy
Enslaver of mother and child: Gertrude Parker, Executrix of the estate of James Parker Sr.
Location: Perth Amboy, NJ
Birth date: April 27, 1805
Reported date: September 27, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Phebe-Gertruda /
I do hereby certify that a female child called Phebe-Gertruda was born of a black woman called Nancy belonging to the estate of James Parker dec’d. On Saturday the twenty seventh day of April last. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and five.
Gertrude Parker
Executrix of James Parker decd
Recorded Oct. 5th 1805." - Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00499
- Action Status
- https://www.onthesegrounds.org/s/OTG/item/546
- Date
- April 27, 1805
- Source
- Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 8. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
- Primary Participant
- Phebe-Gertruda (b. 1805)
- Primary Participant Description
- female child
- Freedom Status
- https://www.onthesegrounds.org/s/OTG/item/553
- Age
- Infant
- Parent
- Nancy [or Nanny]
- Source Resource
- https://records.njslavery.org/api/items/3455
- Source Site
- https://records.njslavery.org/s/doc/page/home
- Sex
- Female
- Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker
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