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Registration Details

Date: 3 December 1782

Registrant: Elliot, Daniel

Historical County: Westmoreland

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Hannah

Date of Birth: 1770

Sex: Female

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Elliot, Daniel

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Publication



APPENDIX “A.”
[See Chapter XI.]
A LIST OF NEGRO AND MULATTO SLAVES
Registered in Westmoreland County pursuant to an Act of Assembly of the
State of Pennsylvania, entitled “An act for the gradual abolition of
slavery,” passed the
1st day of March, A.D. 1780, and to an Act of As-
sembly entitled " An act to redress certain grievances within the counties
of Westmoreland and Washington," passed the
13th day of April, A.D.
1782.1

[…]

Dec. 3, 1782.

DANIEL ELLIOT. Female, 12, Hannah.

[…]


1 The date of entry is first given, then the names of owners in SMALL
CAPITALS, followed by the sex, age, and name of the slave.

Sources

  • Publication: George Dallas Albert, ed., History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), 449