1814-04-05 Birth: Rebecca Ann
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00186
- Source
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 271
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Middlesex County Manumissions and Removals, page 271. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. XI.
- Event Description
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Rebecca Ann was born on April 5, 1814, in New Jersey, the daughter of an enslaved woman named Hannah Grene. The birth date is inferred from a court document issued in July 1818 that mentions Rebecca Ann as a "female child named Rebeca Ann aged four years on or about the fifth day of April last past."
It is unclear who was Rebecca Ann's enslaver at the time of her birth in 1814, because by the time Rebecca Ann was 4 years old, she and her mother were enslaved by different men and lived in separate households. By 1818, Rebecca Ann's enslaver was John Smock of Monmouth County, but her mother Hannah Grene's enslaver was George Farmer of Middlesex County. It is possible that Rebecca Ann was born in George Farmer's household and was later sold or otherwise transferred to John Smock. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- April 5, 1814
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- New Jersey
- Primary Participants
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Rebecca Ann (b. 1814) {daughter of Hannah Grene}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00634
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Smock
- George Farmer (1761-1818)
Verbatim description from source:
"female child named Rebeca Ann aged four years on or about the fifth day of April last past now belonging to John Smock in the County of Monmouth in New Jersey which said female child was born under the Abolition Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey by virtue of which act she the said female child will become free and entitled to freedom at the age of twenty one years"Hannah Grene (b. ca. 1797)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00712
Role: Parent
Age: 17
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- George Farmer (1761-1818)
Verbatim description from source:
"female slave named Hannah Grene aged between twenty one and twenty two years...slave for life" - Additional Participants
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George Farmer (1761-1818)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00483
Role: Enslaver
Comment: known enslaver of mother Hannah Grene by 1818, and possible former enslaver of child Rebecca Ann at the time of her birthJohn Smock
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00486
Role: Enslaver
Comment: known enslaver of child Rebecca Ann by 1818 - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker