New Jersey Slavery Records · 1804, Lenar, Birth

1804, Lenar, Birth

Title: 1804, Lenar, Birth
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00309
Event Description: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 2
Child: Lenar
Mother: Hager
Enslaver of mother and child: John O. Jaques
Birth date: December 5, 1804
Reported date: April 15, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The birth certificate does not list a specific location within Middlesex County. However, other archival records indicate that John O. Jaques was a resident of Woodbridge.
Event Type: Life event: Birth
Action Status: Completed
Date: 5 December 1804
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Primary Participant: Lenar (b. 1804)
Sex: Female
Age: Infant
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver of Primary Event Participant: John Ogilvie Jaques (1766-1816)
Parent: Hager
Source: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 2; Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 2. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Author: William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Record Contributor: Lindsey Dixon; Jesse Bayker