1818-06-20 Birth: Lewis
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01694
- Source
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 301
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 301. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
- Event Description
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Somerset County birth records of enslaved children contain a birth registration document for siblings Dick, Joseph, Lewis, and Samuel. Lewis's information is as follows:
Book A, Page 301
Child: Lewis
Mother: Flora
Enslaver of mother and child: John Joline
Location: Montgomery township
Birth date: 20 June 1818
Reported date: 20 February 1823
Clerk: Isaac Southard
This certificate lists Montgomery township as the place. John Joline was a well-known innkeeper in Princeton (then considered part of Montgomery township), and Flora's children were born there. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- June 20, 1818
- Location of Event
- Princeton
- Primary Participants
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Lewis (b. 1818)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-04156
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Joline (1769-1839)
Verbatim description from source:
"another negro child named Lewis"Flora Stryker (1793-1882)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02534
Role: Parent
Age: 25
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Joline (1769-1839)
Verbatim description from source:
"certain negro slave named Flora" - Additional Participants
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John Joline (1769-1839)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02533
Role: EnslaverIsaac Southard (1783-1850)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03397
Role: County Clerk - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker