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Slavery Collection, 1709-1864
[Birth certificate of a certain Black child named John]
Finlay, Thomas H.TraceJohn
nyhs_sc_b-05_f-19_008 Mss Collection - Slavery Collection
1815-07-01
Birth certificate of John, born October 8, 1811, to a 'Black woman a slave named Trace' belonging to Manhattan teacher Thos. [Thomas] H. Finlay.
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