1815-01-02 Birth: Derinda

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00447
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 70

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 70. 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: 70
Child: Derinda
Mother: Violet
Enslaver of mother and child: Jonathan Rowland
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Birth date: January 2, 1815
Reported date: April 8, 1823
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The birth certificate stated that the enslaver was a farmer and that the child's name was "Derinda alias Belinda." The same document also reported the birth of her brother Robert.
Event Type
Birth
Date
January 2, 1815
Location of Event
Woodbridge
Related Event
1817-05-12 Birth: Robert
Primary Participants

Derinda (b. 1815) {or Belinda, daughter of Violet}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00913
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jonathan Rowland
Verbatim description from source:
"female child called Derinda alias Belinda"

Violet
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01047
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jonathan Rowland
Additional Participants

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

Jonathan Rowland
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01288
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event