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Birth certificate for Jim, son of Phebe

1809 Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)

1809 certificate detailing the birth of Jim, son of trustee John Van Cleve's slave Phebe.

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John Van Cleve, certification of slave child with the clerk of Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, 20 February 1809, accessed 15 August 2017, http://www.nj.gov/state/archives/chncl004.html.

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