1812-03 Birth: Ellen
- Research Tips
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00428
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 50
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 50. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
- Event Description
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:
Page: 50
Child: Ellen
Mother: Caty
Enslaver of mother and child: Mary Deare
Location: North Brunswick, NJ
Reported date: December 19, 1812
Clerk: William Philips Deare
This record does not indicate full date it states the birth was "...on the [blank space] day of March eighteen hundred & twelve."
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Ellen /
I Mary Deare of the city of New Brunswick in New Jersey certify that a female negro child called Ellen was born of my slave Caty at the township of North Brunswick in the county of Middlesex on the day of March eighteen hundred twelve. Witness my hand.
Mary Deare
Recorded December 19, 1812 " - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- March 1812
- Location of Event
- North Brunswick
- Primary Participants
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Ellen (b. 1812) {daughter of Caty}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00923
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mary Deare (1786-1860)Caty
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01031
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mary Deare (1786-1860) - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkMary Deare (1786-1860)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00752
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker