New Jersey Slavery Records · 1804, Cate, Birth

1804, Cate, Birth

Title: 1804, Cate, Birth
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00321
Event Description: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 6
Child: Cate
Mother: Lydia
Enslaver of mother and child: Joseph Buckalew
Location: South Amboy, NJ
Birth date: November 28, 1804
Reported date: August 4, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The enslaver signed by his mark (illiterate) and his occupation was noted as farmer.
Event Type: Life event: Birth
Action Status: Completed
Date: 28 November 1804
Location: South Amboy, NJ
Primary Participant: Cate (b. 1804)
Sex: Female
Age: Infant
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver of Primary Event Participant: Joseph Buckalew
Parent: Lydia
Source: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 6; Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 6. 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