1817-03-01 Membership or Participation: Cato Beach
- Identifier
- NJS-EVE-01161
- Source
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Permission slip for Cato to join the African Association, by Abraham Beach
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African Association of New Brunswick Minute Book
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Permission slip for Cato to join the African Association, by Abraham Beach, March 1, 1817. Archival location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Unmarked folder with loose slips.
African Association of New Brunswick (N.J.). Minute Book, 1817-1824 (MC 50). Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. See membership roll for 1817 on p. 3 of the bound volume. - Event Description
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On March 1, 1817, the Rev. Abraham Beach, an Episcopalian minister who had a farm near New Brunswick, gave permission to an enslaved Black man named Cato to join the African Association of New Brunswick. Cato's permission slip was preserved in the organization's manuscript collection. Cato's name also appears on the organization's membership roll for 1817 (in the minute book for the association). Evidently, Rev. Abraham Beach also joined the association as a patron, and his name appears on the membership roll as well.
Transcript of the permission slip:
"My coloured servant Cato hath my permission to become a member of the African Association of New Brunswick
Abrm Beach
1st March 1817." - Event Type
- Membership or Participation
- Date
- March 1, 1817
- Location of Event
- New Brunswick
- Primary Participants
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Cato Beach
Person identifier: NJS-PER-02698
Role: Member
Age category: Adult
Status: Enslaved
Enslaver(s) of this participant:
- Abraham Beach (1740-1828)
Verbatim description from source:
"coloured servant Cato" - Additional Participants
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Abraham Beach (1740-1828)
Person identifier: NJS-PER-00608
Role: Enslaver, Permission Grantor
Comment: Rev. Beach also became a member of the African Association of New Brunswick together with Cato - Organization
- African Association of New Brunswick
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker