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Registration Details

Date: 26 August 1807

Registrant: Whitaker, Abraham

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Mifflin

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Elizabeth

Date of Birth: 17 April 1807

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Cass

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Mullatoe Women...slaves for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Whitaker, Catharine [Whitaker, Catherine]

Occupation: Gentlewoman

Relation to registrant: relative


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 68, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA