1816-08-01 Birth: Elizabeth

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00467
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 85

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 85. 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: 85
Child: Elizabeth
Mother: Catherine
Father: James Scott
Enslaver of mother and child: Mary Scott
Location: South Brunswick, NJ
Birth date: August 1, 1816
Reported date: May 4, 1835
Clerk: Nicholas Booraem

Enslaver Mary Scott signed this document in 1835 in New Brunswick, but she noted that she previously resided in South Brunswick. Elizabeth was 18 years old by the time the enslaver submitted this birth registration. Presumably Elizabeth had been born in South Brunswick. The document also contained an unusual note, stating "I gave said child to her father James Scott & his wife."

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Elizabeth

I Mary Scott late of the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that a female Negro child named Elizabeth was born of a Negrow woman named Catherine a slave belonging to me on the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and that I gave said child to her father James Scott & his wife.

New Brunswick May 4th 1835
Mary Scott

Received August 4th 1835 & Recorded by N. Booraem Clk"
Event Type
Birth
Date
August 1, 1816
Location of Event
South Brunswick
Primary Participants

Elizabeth (b. 1816) {daughter of Catherine and James Scott}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00928
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mary Scott
Verbatim description from source:
"female Negro child"

Catherine Scott
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01064
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Mary Scott

James Scott
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01084
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Unknown
Additional Participants

Nicholas Booraem Jr. (1786-1869)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00332
Role: County Clerk

Mary Scott
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01279
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event