1817-05-12 Birth: Robert

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00448
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: Robert
Mother: Violet
Enslaver of mother and child: Jonathan Rowland
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Birth date: May 12, 1817
Reported date: April 8, 1823
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The document stated that the enslaver was a farmer. The same document reported the birth of Robert's sister Derinda alias Belinda.
Event Type
Birth
Date
May 12, 1817
Location of Event
Woodbridge
Related Event
1815-01-02 Birth: Derinda
Primary Participants

Robert (b. 1817) {son of Violet}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00914
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jonathan Rowland
Verbatim description from source:
"male child"

Violet
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01048
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