Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Cato] Birth certificate of Cato, born December 14, 1800, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Dinah' belonging to New York City grocer Abraham Bond. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of male child Theophilus] Birth certificate of Theophilus, aged eight months, born to a female slave belonging to New York City merchant Isaac Clason. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a female child named Jude] One leaf containing two separately signed documents, both dated June 2, 1800. At top, birth certificate of Jude, born March 16, 1800, to a 'Black woman (a slave) named Nan' belonging to Thomas Storm of New York. At bottom, certificate indicating Storm's desire to 'abandon all my claim of service from the said female child,' Jude. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain child named David] Birth certificate of David, born October 17, 1799, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Hannah' belonging to Jonathan Pearsee of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Philis] Birth certificate of Philis, born November 1, 1804, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Eunice' belonging to New York City marshall Richard Smith. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Charles Blake] Birth certificate of Charles Blake, born June 2, 1806, to a 'Mulatto Woman Slave named Charlotte' belonging to New York City mariner John O. Zuill. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of Cora a female child] Birth certificate of Cora, born November 5, 1801, belonging to Harriet Rumsey, wife of Robert Gill of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Henry Harris] Birth certificate of Henry Harris, born October 18, 1807, to a 'Mulatto Woman named Diana Harris' belonging to New York City cooper Robert Speir. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a female child called Rachel] Birth certificate of Rachel, born October 24, 1809, to 'Phebe, a Black woman' belonging to New York City merchant Alexander Sanders. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of Martha or Mat, a Black child] Birth certificate of 'Martha or Mat,' born January 24, 1807, to a 'wench, Rachel' belonging to New York City teacher Stanton Latham. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a child called and known by the name of Isaac] Birth certificate of Isaac, aged nine months, born to 'Slave Lydia Bellard' belonging to gentleman Jacob Harsen of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named John Meyer] Birth certificate of John Meyer, born January 16, 1805, to a 'Mulatto Woman Servant named Sarah Meyer' belonging to New York City coal merchant William Dodge. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a female child] Birth certificate of Ann, born November 15 1803 [?], to a slave belonging to John Rutherford of New York City. Document damage at right hand side with text missing. Birth year is inferred from the date of the certificate, June 7, 1804. The date of July 4, 1799, also appears in the document but probably relates to when the birth mother entered into John Rutherford's service. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Margaret] Birth certificate of Margaret, born August 16, 1807, to a 'Negro woman Slave named Nancy' belonging to New York City merchant Benjamin Hide. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of Cornelius Jackson] Birth certificate of Cornelius Jackson, born in 'August or September' 1799, belonging to John L. Norton of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Jack] Birth certificate of Jack, born June 12, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Mary' belonging to New York City mariner Robert Dunn. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a male Black child by the name of Charles] Birth certificate of Charles, born July 29, 1803, to 'Margaret who is the property of' New York City merchant Stephen Coles. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Francis] Birth certificate of Francis, born August 15, 1814, to a 'slave, a Black woman…named Betty' belonging to New York City merchant James Smith. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named George] Birth certificate of George, born June 19, 1803, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jane' belonging to widow Jessy Judah of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Mary] Birth certificate of Mary, born January 1, 1808, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Isabel' belonging to New York City bookseller Samuel A. Burtus. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a female child named Phoebe] Birth certificate of Phoebe, aged four months and nine days, to a 'Negro Slave named Sarah' belonging to New York City ladies shoe maker Reuben Bunn. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female Negro child named Sarah Louisa] Birth certificate of Sarah Louisa, born November 10, 1816, to a 'Negro woman named Susan' belonging to New York City merchant Selah Strong. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of male child named William Carver] Birth certificate of William Carver, born February 28, 1805, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jude' belonging to New York City butcher Alexander Fink. Signed by John Minure. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Sally] Birth certificate of Sally, born June 3, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Susan' belonging to New York City merchant Abraham Brinckerhoff. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Mary] Birth certificate of Mary, born April 20, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Susan' belonging to widow Jemima Stout of New York City. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Robert Myers] Birth certificate of Robert Myers [Meyer], born November 25, 1807, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Sarah' [probably Sarah Meyer] belonging to New York City coal merchant William Dodge. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Isabella] Birth certificate of Isabella, born August 14, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Peggy' belonging to New York City merchant John B. Coles. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain Black child named Phebe] Birth certificate of Phebe, born November 17, 1813, to a 'Black woman named Trese [i.e. Trace?] a slave' belonging to Manhattan teacher Thos. [Thomas] H. Finlay. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a female Negro child named Hannah] Birth certificate of Hannah, born June 28, 1812, to a 'Negro wench' named Sarah belonging to New York City livery stable keeper John Sandford. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Birth certificate of a certain male child called William] Birth certificate of William, born June 14, 1803, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Hannah' belonging to New York City merchant Coertland Van Beuren. View Item