1805-03-04 Birth: Susan Drake

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00337
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 11

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 11. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
Event Description
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 11
Child: Susan Drake
Mother: Kate
Enslaver of mother and child: William Bullus
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Birth date: March 4, 1805
Reported date: November 16, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer.
Event Type
Birth
Date
March 4, 1805
Location of Event
Woodbridge
Primary Participants

Susan Drake (b. 1805)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00787
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Bullus
Verbatim description from source:
"female black child"

Kate
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00958
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- William Bullus
Additional Participants

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

William Bullus
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01203
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event