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Registration Details

Date: 10 July 1802

Registrant: Wall, Hannah

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Elizabeth

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: 13 February 1802

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Sylph

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women...Slaves for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Wall, James (Sr.)

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: relative


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 52, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA