New Jersey Slavery Records · 1804, Catharine, Birth

1804, Catharine, Birth

Item

Title: 1804, Catharine, Birth
Identifier: NJS-EVE-00728
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: Life event: Birth
Action Status: Completed
Date: 27 November 1804
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Primary Participant: Catharine (b. 1804)
Primary Participant Description (verbatim): negro female child
Sex: Female
Age: 0; Infant
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver of Primary Event Participant: Abraham Dunham (1750-1826)
Parent: Hannah
Source: Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 1; Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 1. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X. Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Author: William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Record Contributor: Lindsey Dixon; Jesse Bayker