1806 Birth: Charlotte
- Research Tips
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00738
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 19
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 19. 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: 19
Child: Charlotte
Mother: Margaret
Enslaver of mother and child: John Rattoone
Location: Perth Amboy, NJ
Reported date: May 15, 1806
Clerk: William Philips Deare
The child's date of birth is conspicuously missing from the record, with blank spaces left where the date and month should be, like so: "on the ____ day of ____ last past." It can be inferred that Charlotte was born circa 1806 or 1805. The words "last past" suggest that Charlotte was born within the preceding 12 months. By law, birth certificates had to be filed within one year of the child's birth, although enslavers were often tardy with the birth registration process.
The mother's name is listed as Margaret, without a last name. Other county records indicate that Margaret's family name was Lawrence or Lawrance. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- 1806
- Date Certainty
- Inferred
- Location of Event
- Perth Amboy
- Primary Participants
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Charlotte (b. ca. 1806) {daughter of Margaret Lawrance}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01865
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Rattoone (1744-1823)
Verbatim description from source:
"female negro child"Margaret Lawrance (b. 1781)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01351
Role: Parent
Age: 25
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- John Rattoone (1744-1823) - Additional Participants
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William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County ClerkJohn Rattoone (1744-1823)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00316
Role: Enslaver - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker