Birth record for Hannah, daughter of Dinah, reported by slaveholder Charity Dean
Title
Birth record for Hannah, daughter of Dinah, reported by slaveholder Charity Dean
Creator
Description
Slaveholder Charity Dean reports that Dinah, an enslaved woman, gave birth to daughter Hannah on March 30, 1809. The birth certificate was recorded by Middlesex County Clerk, William P. Deare, on May 17, 1810.
Date
1810-05-17
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1809-03-30
Identifier
SCUA-MC-Births-40-Dinah
Text (Transcript)
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Hannah
I Charity Dean of the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that a certain female negro child named Hannah was on the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nine born of the body of Dinah a female negro slave of mine.
Dated April 5th, 1810
Charity Dean
Recd May - 17th, 1810 & recorded
Deare Clk
Hannah
I Charity Dean of the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that a certain female negro child named Hannah was on the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nine born of the body of Dinah a female negro slave of mine.
Dated April 5th, 1810
Charity Dean
Recd May - 17th, 1810 & recorded
Deare Clk
Page
40
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) |
Collection
Citation
Middlesex County Clerk, “Birth record for Hannah, daughter of Dinah, reported by slaveholder Charity Dean,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 24, 2023, https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/items/show/955.