1810-09-19 Birth: Mary

Identifier
NJS-EVE-01691
Source
Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 144
Somerset County Birth Certificate, Part I, Series 2, Item 24

Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 144. Somerset County Clerk's Office.

Certificates of Births of Black Children and Slaves, 1805-1817. Series 2 (1809-1811), Item 24. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
Event Description
Somerset County birth records of enslaved children contain the following record:

Book A, Page 144
Child: Mary
Parents: certificate says "slave Black Parents," but names were not listed
Enslaver of mother and child: David Kirkpatrick
Location: Bernards
Birth date: 19 September 1810
Reported date: 29 August 1814
Clerk: Samuel Swan

This certificate was submitted by David Kirkpatrick Jr. in 1814 shortly after the death of his father David Kirkpatrick Sr. Although this fact is not mentioned explicitly in the document, it can be presumed that David Kirkpatrick Sr. was the original enslaver of Mary and her parents because he was the head of the household when Mary was born in 1810. After David Sr.'s death in 1814, David Jr. inherited his father's homestead in the Mine Brook area of Bernards township and became the head of the household and, presumably, the new legal owner of Mary and her parents.
Event Type
Birth
Date
September 19, 1810
Location of Event
Bernards (formerly Bernardston)
Mine Brook, Bernardsville
Primary Participants

Mary (b. 1810)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04153
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- David Kirkpatrick Sr. (1723-1814)
- David Kirkpatrick Jr. (1758-1828)
Verbatim description from source:
"born in my family of slave Black Parents a female child named Mary"
Additional Participants

David Kirkpatrick Sr. (1723-1814)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02546
Role: Enslaver
Comment: original enslaver of Mary at the time of her birth

David Kirkpatrick Jr. (1758-1828)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04143
Role: Enslaver, Reporter or Certifier
Comment: filed the delayed birth registration in 1814, heir to David Kirkpatrick Sr.

Samuel Swan (1771-1844)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02553
Role: County Clerk
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event