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Registration Details

Date: 31 March 1789

Registrant: Work, Joseph

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lydia

Date of Birth: 15 September 1781

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Bett

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "duly entered and Registered by me at Lancaster as a Slave"


Frank

Date of Birth: 24 April 1785

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Bett

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "duly entered and Registered by me at Lancaster as a Slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Work, Joseph

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Joseph Work of Donegal Twp, 31 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F005_It02, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
  • Transcript: J. B. Eshleman, comp., "Record of the Returns Made in Writing"As Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 9, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA