1766-08 Baptism: Dinah, Daniel, Chloe, Phillis

Identifier
NJS-EVE-00825
Source

Geffken, Rick. Stories of Slavery in New Jersey. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2021. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Stories_of_Slavery_in_New_Jersey/pSsEEAAAQBAJ See p. 71, citing the Parish Register of the Christ Church in Shrewsbury for August 1766 (image or transcript not provided).
Event Description
Four Black children named Dinah, Daniel, Chloe, and Phillis, all enslaved by Isabella Kearney, were baptized at the Christ Church in Shrewsbury in August 1766. The names of the children's parents were not recorded in the church register. At the time of this event, Isabella Kearney was the proprietor of a farm in the area of Marsh's Bog (present-day Farmingdale), Monmouth County, NJ, and it can be inferred that the children lived there.
Event Type
Baptism
Date
August 1766
Location of Event
Shrewsbury
Related Place
Farmingdale
Related Event
1756-05-06 Baptism: Rachel, Mary, Margaret, Robert Johnson, Bella
Primary Participants

Dinah
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02019
Role: Baptized Person
Age category: Child
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isabella Kearney (1716-1806)

Daniel
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02020
Role: Baptized Person
Age category: Child
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isabella Kearney (1716-1806)

Chloe
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02021
Role: Baptized Person
Age category: Child
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isabella Kearney (1716-1806)

Phillis
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02022
Role: Baptized Person
Age category: Child
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Isabella Kearney (1716-1806)
Additional Participants

Isabella Kearney (1716-1806)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02000
Role: Enslaver

Samuel Cooke (1723-1795)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02017
Role: Clergy
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
Resource class
Event