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From: "Catherine Di Pietro" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Slaves in Hunterdon Co, NJ
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:38:34 -0400

There's some information about slaves, as held by Hunterdon
County residents, at the Hunterdon County Library.

http://www.hunterdon.lib.nj.us/ref/genealog.htm

including:

Deats, Hiram E. "Marriages: Slaves and Negros, Hunterdon County,
1795-1875," Hunterdon Historical Newsletter, vol. 5, p. 95. R-NJ 974.971

[Barker, Bette Marie]. Guide to Family History Sources in the
New Jersey State Archives (Trenton: 1987). A good summary of how to
use the state archives and what you can expect to find there -- much more
than
just vital statistics. Original Hunterdon County records include births of
Negro
children (1804-35), Justice of the Peace dockets (1790-1947), mortgages/loan
office (1737-48), tavern licenses (1737-1870), and manumissions of slaves
(1788-1853). 929.1 and R 929.1

Although it is not listed on their website, I also found information in:

D'Autrechy, Phyllis B. More Records of Old Hunterdon County,
Volume 1 (Flemington, N.J.: 1998). Records from the Surrogate's Office
dealing with wills and guardianships...

You can find manumissions at the county court houses in NJ. Also,
there was a civil registration of slave birth required after the passage
of a New Jersey law, beginning July 4, 1804, every child born of a
slave was recorded with the county.

Hope that's enough to get you started,
Cathy DiPietro listowner NJSussex-L

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