1807-01-22 Birth: Bristor
- Research Tips
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See the Middlesex County Research Guide for information about related records.
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-00739
- Source
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 24
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Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 24. 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: 24
Child: Bristor
Mother: Hanna
Enslaver of mother and child: Jacob Van Dike
Location: Middlesex County, NJ
Birth date: January 22, 1807
Reported date: August 18, 1807
Clerk: William Philips Deare
This birth certificate does not list a specific location within Middlesex County. Other historical records show that Jacob Van Dike resided around the area of Ten Mile Run and Rocky Hill, and it can be inferred that Bristor was born there. A separate birth record that Jacob Van Dike submitted for Bristor's older sister Rachel in 1804 listed Ten Mile Run as the locality. - Event Type
- Birth
- Date
- January 22, 1807
- Location of Event
- Ten Mile Run, Franklin
- Primary Participants
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Bristor (b. 1807) {son of Hannah}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01866
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Verbatim description from source:
"male child Bristor"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:
"the childs mother name Hanna" - Additional Participants
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Jacob Van Dike (1723-1809)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01900
Role: EnslaverWilliam Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk - Record Contributor
- Lindsey Dixon
- Jesse Bayker