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Registration Details

Date: 20 June 1792

Registrant: Work, Joseph

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sophia

Date of Birth: 24 December 1791

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, 20 June 1792, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F008_It06, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 13, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA