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Registration Details

Date: 14 August 1809

Registrant: Whitaker, Abraham

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Mifflin

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jacob

Date of Birth: 1 April 1809

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Cass

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women slave for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Whitaker, Catherine

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: relative


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 72-3, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA