1805-07-01 Birth: Dinah

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01400
Source
Somerset County Birth Certificate, Part I, Series 1, Item 8
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 29

Certificates of Births of Black Children and Slaves, 1805-1817. Series 1 (1805-1808), Item 8. Somerset County Clerk's Office.

Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 29. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
Event Description
Somerset County birth records of enslaved children contain the following record:

Book A, page number: 29
Certificate number: 100
Child: Dinah (Dyne)
Mother: Sarah
Enslaver of mother and child: John Vermeule
Location: Warren
Birth date: 1 July 1805
Reported date: 1 April 1806
Clerk: Joseph Doty

The child's name was written as "Dyne" in the loose birth certificate and as "Dinah" in the clerk's register Book A.
Event Type
Birth
Date
July 1, 1805
Location of Event
Warren
Primary Participants

Dinah (b. 1805) {or Dyne}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03594
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Vermeule (1768-1813)
Verbatim description from source:
"a female child called Dinah / female child called Dyne"

Sarah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03595
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Vermeule (1768-1813)
Verbatim description from source:
"Sarah a female slave belonging to me"
Additional Participants

John Vermeule (1768-1813)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03206
Role: Enslaver

Joseph Doty (1794-1811)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03365
Role: County Clerk
Record Contributor
Saketh Mandayam
Resource class
Event