1805-05-20 Birth: Caroline
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01357
- Source
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Manumissions, and Removals, Book A, Page 8
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Somerset County Register of Black Children, Book A, Page 8. Somerset County Clerk's Office.
- Event Description
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Somerset County birth records of enslaved children contain the following record:
Book A, page number: 8
Certificate number: 31
Child: Caroline
Mother: Grace
Enslaver of mother and child: Jacob Van Dike
Location: Franklin
Birth date: 20 May 1805
Reported date: 25 May 1805
Clerk: Joseph Doty
Note that other contemporaneous records indicate that Jacob Van Dike lived in the area of Ten Mile Run (a community that lies at the border of Franklin Township, Somerset County, and South Brunswick, Middlesex County). Caroline may have been born in that area of Franklin Township. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- May 20, 1805
- Location of Event
- Franklin (Somerset County)
- Related Place
- Ten Mile Run, Franklin
- Primary Participants
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Caroline (b. 1805)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03395
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Verbatim description from source:
"female child which is named Caroline"Grace
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03396
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Verbatim description from source:
"Grace a female slave" - Additional Participants
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Joseph Doty (1794-1811)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-03365
Role: County ClerkJacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01900
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker