1804-12-02 Birth: Hetty
- Research Tips
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00733
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 4
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 4. 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: 4
Child: Hetty
Mother: Letty
Enslaver of mother and child: James Edgar
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Birth date: December 2, 1804
Reported date: July 20, 1805
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- December 2, 1804
- Location of Event
- Woodbridge
- Primary Participants
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Hetty (b. 1804) {daughter of Letty}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01860
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Edgar (1748-1815)
Verbatim description from source:
"female black child"Letty
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01348
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- James Edgar (1748-1815) - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkJames Edgar (1748-1815)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01325
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker