Manuscripts Relating to Slavery

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: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Roselle]; Birth certificate of Roselle, born December 24, 1803, to a 'Mulatto Wench named Betty' belonging to New York City merchant John Gerhard Coster. In document, the word 'Negro' has been crossed out and replaced with 'Mulatto.'

: [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.

: [Birth certificate of Othello Lawbury, a mulatto male child]; Birth certificate of Othello Lawbury, born May 2, 1802, to a 'female slave named Mary' belonging to New York City attorney at law Andrew Raymond.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Jack]; Birth certificate of Jack, born January 23, 1806, to a 'Negro Woman named Silva' belonging to New York City gentleman Jacob Wilkins.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female mulatto child named Elizabeth]; Birth certificate of Elizabeth, born April 8, 1803, to a 'Mulatto Woman Slave named Rachel' belonging to New York City merchant Andrew Foster.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child by the name of Betsey]; Birth certificate of Betsey, born January 17, 1800 [1803?], to a 'slaveby the name of Catharine' belonging to widow Ann McAdams of New York City.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Susan]; Birth certificate of Susan, born February 4, 1801, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jenny' belonging to New York City merchant John Swartwout.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child...]; Birth certificate of [?], born November 26, 1800, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Mercy' belonging to Thomas Barclay of New York City. Damage to document on left side with text missing, including name of child.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Rachel]; Birth certificate of Rachel, born March 1, 1806, to a 'negro woman slave named Dinah O'Brian' belonging to New York City law student Henry Dodge.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Hannah]; Birth certificate of Hannah, born October 21, 1806, to a 'negro woman slave named Nance' belonging to New York County merchant John Lawrence.

: [Birth certificate of two negro children Jack and Kitty]; Birth certificate of Jack, aged three years and five months, and Kitty, aged nine months, transferred in ownership from Isaac Butler of Westfield, New York, to Sampson Simson.

: [Birth certificate of female child Susan]; Birth certificate of Susan, born December 1, 1809, to Clause and Sarah, slaves belonging to Maria Duffie, widow of New York merchant John Duffie. Signed in the presence of Gabriel Furman.

: [Birth certificate of a female negro named Clara and another female negro named Mary]; Birth certificate of Clara, born Novemer 8, 1801, to a 'female slave Rachel,' and of Mary, born May 6, 1802, to a 'female slave Sylvia,' both belonging to New York City merchant Jonathan Lawrence.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Isabella]; Birth certificate of Isabella, born December 16, 1803, to a 'Negro woman Slave named Hager [Hagar]' belonging to New York City tallow chandler John Slidell.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Peter]; Birth certificate of Peter, born February 7, 1811, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Bett' belonging to New York City stock broker Leonard Bleecker.

: [Birth certificate of Ruth, a certain female child]; Birth certificate of Ruth, born August 8, 1803, to a 'Negro woman Slavenamed Jude' belonging to New York City butcher Alexander Fink. Addressed to Tunis Wortman Esquire, Clerk of the City and County of New York.

: [Birth certificate of Mary a negro child]; Birth certificate of Mary, born in April 1802, to 'Mary a slave & Samuel Sperry a free man.' Signed by New York City merchant Gulian Ludlow.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Lewis]; Birth certificate of Lewis, born May 14, 1803, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Dell' belonging to New York City gentleman Jacob Stout.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named George]; Birth certificate of George, born April 6, 1807, to a 'Negro Woman named Deborah' belonging to New York City merchant Abraham Bussing.

: [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.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Argill]; Birth certificate of Argill, born in March 1808, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Phillis' belonging to New York City grocer John O'Neal.

: [Birth certificate of James]; Birth certificate of James, born June 19, 1802, to 'Marianne, the wife of York' belonging to New York City surgeon William Hurst. Document cosigned by attorney Timothy Hurst. James was baptised August 1, 1802, by the Right Reverend Bishop Moore.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Peg]; Birth certificate of Peg, born May 4, 1812, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Yawn' belonging to New York City merchant John Vreeland.

: [Birth certificate of a female mulatto child by the name of Harriet]; Birth certificate of Harriet, born February 10, 1810, to a 'black girl a boun [bound?] servant the property of Thomas Stag,' at that time in the service of New York City shipwright Jacob Weaver.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named John Evans]; Birth certificate of John Evans, born October 25, 1801, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Abigail' belonging to New York City grocer William C. Bucknor.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male named Chance]; Birth certificate of Chance to a 'Negro Woman Slave [named] Susannah' belonging to Samuel Fitz Randolph of New York City. Birth date is obscured by damage to document.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Sidney]; Birth certificate of Sidney, born December 2, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Susan' belonging to New York City measurer Frederick Mabie.

: [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.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Sam]; Birth certificate of Sam, born December 25, 1814, to a 'Colored Woman a slave named Tine' belonging to New York City physician Joseph Bayley.

: [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.

: [Birth certificate of Stephen, a male child]; Birth certificate of Stephen, born February 18, 1805, to a 'negro girl called Hannah' belonging to New York City merchant John Lawrence.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Nancy]; Birth certificate of Nancy, born July 2, 1801, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Hagar' belonging to New York City tallow chandler John Slidell.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Dick]; Birth certificate of Dick, born April 21, 1810, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Nance' belonging to New York City ship master James Gillender.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Joseph]; Birth certificate of Joseph, born September 10, 1808, to a 'Mulatto Woman Slave named Hannah' belonging to New York City house carpenter Isaac Mead.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Edward]; Birth certificate of Edward, born July 14, 1808, to a 'Negro Woman Servant named Chloe' belonging to widow Eliza Troup of New York City.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named Peter]; Birth certificate of Peter, born September 11, 1805, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Mary' belonging to New York City boarding house keeper Benajah Abrahams.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male black child named Jacob]; Birth certificate of Jacob, born October 15, 1801, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Sarah' belonging to New York City merchant Archibald Currie.

: [Birth certificate of a female child, who is called Nanny]; Birth certificate of Nanny, born August 17, 1801, to a slave named Cate belonging to New York City weigher Daniel Kemper.

: [Birth certificate of a male child named Charles]; Birth certificate of Charles, born in July 1799 to a 'female slave' belonging to Ann Richardson of New York.

: [Birth certificate of Thomas]; Birth certificate of Thomas, born April 29, 1801, to a slave named Hannah belonging to New York City ship chandler Frederick Babcock.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Simme]; Birth certificate of Simme, born July 8, 1805, to a 'Mullatto [sic] Woman Servant named Rachel' belonging to New York City sexton Samuel DeGroodt.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Betty]; Birth certificate of Betty, born July 29, 1799, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jenny' belonging to New York City counsellor at law Isaac L. Kip. Signed by witness Joseph Fellows Jun. [Junior].

: [Birth certificate of a female child named Laura]; Birth certificate of Laura, born November 30, 1816, to a 'negro girl Venus' belonging to William Sandford.

: [Birth certificate of Ann Maria Stevenson]; One leaf containing two separately signed documents, both dated February 19, 1803. At top, birth certificate of of Ann Maria Stevenson, born to 'the wife of a free black by the name of Joseph Stevenson' belonging to New York City physician Joshua E. R. Birch. At bottom, certificate indicating Birch's intention to 'abandon' his rights to the child. Addressed to Tunis Wortman, Esq., Clerk of the City and County of New York.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child called Henry]; Birth certificate of Henry, born August 20, 1803, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Jane' belonging to New York City bookseller Hugh Gaine.

: [Birth certificate of a certain female child named Brunette]; Birth certificate of Brunette, born March 10, 1806, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Hannah' belonging to widow Hannah Lewis of New York City.

: [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.

: [Birth certificate of John Baptiste Thompson]; Birth certificate of John Baptiste Thompson, born in January 1802, to a 'Negro Slave Amanda' belonging to New York City merchant Thomas Bibby.

: [Birth certificate of a certain male child named William]; Birth certificate of William, born May 15, 1802, to a 'Negro Woman Slave named Nanny' belonging to Elizabeth Duryee of New York City, widow of Abraham Duryee.

: [Birth certificate of Emma]; Birth certificate of Emma, born October 3, 1803, to 'a negro woman named Hetta.' Signed by attorney at law Robert P. Lee.

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