1804-10-16 Birth: Rachel
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00729
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 2
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 2. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
- Event Description
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:
Page: 2
Child: Rachel
Mother: Hanna
Enslaver of mother and child: Jacob Van Dike
Location: Ten Mile Run, NJ
Birth date: October 16, 1804
Reported date: April 11, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The following is a complete transcript of the document:
"Rachel
This is to certify that I Jacob Van Dike of Ten Mile Run of the Southward of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey had a negro female child born the sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and four by my negro woman named Hanna, the aforesaid child is named Rachel. As Witness my hand this eleventh day of April 1805. --
Jacob Van Dike
Recorded April 11th 1805" - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- October 16, 1804
- Location of Event
- Ten Mile Run, Franklin
- Primary Participants
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Rachel (b. 1804) {daughter of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01856
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro female child"Hannah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01847
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Verbatim description from source:
"negro woman Hanna" - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkJacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01900
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker