1810-09-12 Birth: Hester

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Identifier
NJS-EVE-00749
Source

Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children, page 45. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1). Vol. X.
Event Description
Middlesex County Births of Enslaved Children book contains the following record:

Page: 45
Child: Hester
Mother: Ann
Enslaver of mother and child: Isaac Cotheal
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Birth date: September 12, 1810
Reported date: May 23, 1811
Clerk: William Philips Deare

The document indicates that the enslaver was a farmer.

This certificate lists Woodbridge township as the location. A different birth certificate submitted by Isaac Cotheal for Hester's older sister Jane indicated that Cotheal was a resident of Bonhamtown in Woodbridge township; it can be inferred that Hester was also born in the vicinity of Bonhamtown.
Event Type
Birth
Date
September 12, 1810
Location of Event
Bonhamtown, Edison
Woodbridge
Primary Participants

Hester (b. 1810) {daughter of Ann}
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01876
Role: Child
Age category: Infant
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isaac Cotheal (1743-1812)
Verbatim description from source:
"female negro child"

Ann
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01849
Role: Parent
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isaac Cotheal (1743-1812)
Additional Participants

William Philips Deare (d. 1826)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00008
Role: County Clerk

Isaac Cotheal (1743-1812)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-01837
Role: Enslaver
Record Contributor
Lindsey Dixon
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event