New Jersey Slavery Records · 1804, Dinah, Birth

1804, Dinah, Birth

Title: 1804, Dinah, Birth
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00340
Event Description: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 12
Child: Dinah
Mother: Elizabeth
Enslaver of mother and child: William Lupardus
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Birth date: December 26, 1804
Reported date: February 22, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The mother is referred to as "slave Elizabeth otherwise called Bett." The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer.
Event Type: Life event: Birth
Action Status: Completed
Date: 26 December 1804
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Primary Participant: Dinah (b. 1804)
Sex: Female
Age: Infant
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver of Primary Event Participant: William Lupardus
Parent: Elizabeth [Bett]
Source: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 12; Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 12. 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