1804-11-27 Birth: Catharine

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00728
Source
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 1

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 1. 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: 1
Child: Catharine
Mother: Hannah
Enslaver of mother and child: Abraham Dunham
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Birth date: November 27, 1804
Reported date: April 4, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer.

The following is a complete transcript of the document:

"Katy or Catharine

I Abraham Dunham of the township of Piscataway in the County of Middlesex, Farmer, certify that Katy or Catharine a negro female child was born of my slave Hannah on the twenty seventh day of November last. Witness my hand this fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.

Abrm Dunham

Recorded April 4th 1805."
Event Type
Birth
Date
November 27, 1804
Location of Event
Piscataway
Primary Participants

Catharine (b. 1804) {daughter of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01855
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Dunham (1750-1826)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro female child"

Hannah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01846
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Dunham (1750-1826)
Additional Participants

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

Abraham Dunham (1750-1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01323
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event