Birth record for Rachel, daughter of Hanna, reported by slaveholder Jacob Van Dike
Title
Birth record for Rachel, daughter of Hanna, reported by slaveholder Jacob Van Dike
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Jacob Van Dike reports that Hanna, an enslaved woman, gave birth to daughter Rachel on October 16, 1804.
For more about Jacob Van Dike (1754-1827) and the people that he enslaved, see our New Jersey Slavery Records database.
Date
1805-04-11
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1804-10-16
Language
English
Relation
New Jersey Slavery Records database: 1804, Rachel, Birth
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Jacob Van Dike (1754-1827)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Rachel (b. 1804)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Hanna (mother of Rachel)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Bristor (b. 1807) (brother of Rachel)
New Jersey Slavery Records database: Democrat (b. 1812) (brother of Rachel)
Text (Transcript)
Rachel
This is to certify that I Jacob Van Dike of Ten Mile Run of the Southward of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey had a negro female child born the sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and four by my negro woman named Hanna, the aforesaid child is named Rachel. As Witness my hand this eleventh day of April 1805. --
Jacob Van Dike
Recorded April 11th 1805
This is to certify that I Jacob Van Dike of Ten Mile Run of the Southward of New Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey had a negro female child born the sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and four by my negro woman named Hanna, the aforesaid child is named Rachel. As Witness my hand this eleventh day of April 1805. --
Jacob Van Dike
Recorded April 11th 1805
Page
2
Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Archival collection
Middlesex County (N.J.). Records, 1688-1929 (MC 784.1)
Archival location
Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844
Item Relations
| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: Middlesex County Register of Black Children (Birth of Slaves, 1804-1844) |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Birth record for Democrat, son of Hanna, reported by slaveholder Jacob Van Dike |
| Item: Birth record for Bristor, son of Hanna, reported by slaveholder Jacob Van Dike | is related to | This Item |
Collection
Citation
Middlesex County Clerk, “Birth record for Rachel, daughter of Hanna, reported by slaveholder Jacob Van Dike,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed April 18, 2024, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/81.