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Registration Details

Date: 1 May 1790

Registrant: Work, Joseph

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Charity

Date of Birth: 2 November 1789

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Alice

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: "Registered as the Law directs"


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, 1 May 1790, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F006_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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 10, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA