1808-05-17 Birth: Sarah Ann

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00393
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 32

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 32. 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: 32
Child: Sarah Ann
Mother: Hannah
Enslaver of mother and child: Elizabeth Van Deventer
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Birth date: May 17, 1808
Reported date: March 28, 1809
Clerk: William Philips Deare

It appears that Sarah Ann had a twin sister because the enslaver also submitted a birth certificate for Hannah's daughter Julia Ann, listing the same date of birth.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Sarah-Ann /

I, Elizabeth Van Deventer, of the township of Piscataway, in the County of Middlesex, and State of New Jersey, widow of Jeremiah Vandeventer, decd. certify that a female negro child called Sarah Ann, was born of my slave Hannah, at the township aforesaid, on the seventeenth day of May last. Witness my hand this twenty eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine-
1809.
Elizabeth Vandevanter.

Received March 28th 1809, & recorded
Deare, Clk"
Event Type
Birth
Date
May 17, 1808
Location of Event
Piscataway
Related Event
1808-05-17 Birth: Julia Ann
Primary Participants

Sarah Ann (b. 1808) {daughter of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00905
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Elizabeth Van Deventer
Verbatim description from source:
"female negro child"

Hannah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01077
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Elizabeth Van Deventer
Additional Participants

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

Elizabeth Van Deventer
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01289
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event