1808-05-17 Birth: Julia Ann

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00394
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: Julia 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 Julia Ann had a twin sister because the enslaver also submitted a birth certificate for Hannah's daughter Sarah Ann, listing the same date of birth.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Julia Ann /

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

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

Julia Ann (b. 1808) {daughter of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00835
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Elizabeth Van Deventer

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